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Books > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Herbs
Expert herbalist Maria Noel Groves has advice for budding herb
gardeners: grow just what your body needs! In Grow Your Own Herbal
Remedies, Groves provides 23 specially tailored garden plans for
addressing the most common health needs, along with simple recipes
for using each group of herbs. For chronic stomach problems,
marshmallow, plantain, rose, fennel, and calendula make the perfect
medicine, with recipes for tummy tea and gut-healing broth. Whether
the need is for headache relief, immune support, stress relief, or
a daily tonic, readers will learn the three to six herbs that are
most effective and how to plant, harvest, and care for each one. In
all of Groves's plant suggestions, the emphasis is on safe,
effective, easy-to-grow herbs that provide abundant harvests and
can be planted in containers or garden beds.
The founder of the Rosemary House, a Pennsylvania herb and spice
shop, provides readers will all the necessary information for
transforming an herb hobby into a successful herb business, and
shares her secrets for developing and designing herbal products and
packaging them effectively. Illustrations; resource list.
Home Harvest: Your Pocket Guide to Kitchen Gardening is a
practical, fun and easy-to-read deck of cards that will help you
plant and grow your own kitchen garden. Growing vegetables sounds
like a daunting task if you've never done it before, but it's
actually very simple. Including gardening 101 tips plus
instructions for growing vegetables, herbs and flowers, Home
Harvest breaks down the basics of growing your own food. The deck
is divided into four sections: Gardening 101, Veggies, Herbs and
Flowers. The gardening 101 cards help you start your garden from
scratch, offer advice on keeping it healthy and abundant, and
introduce you to the common garden enemies with tips on managing
them. You will also learn how to entice all the friendly critters
needed for a healthy ecosystem. Each veggie, herb and flower card
has growing and planting information, plus handy cooking tips and
fun facts. In Home Harvest the farmers behind Kinsfolk Farm guide
you through the process of planting, growing and eating veggies
from your very own patch of soil - as simple as that! The card
format is perfect for gardening because you can take one card out
to the garden at a time instead of lugging a book around. Each card
is beautifully illustrated by the phenomenal Edith Rewa, making
this a stunning gift for every gardener in your life.
The content of this book originally appeared in The New Kitchen
Garden, published in 2015. 'An endless selection of delicious
produce you can plant, grow and then cook with.' Raymond Blanc OBE
Now you can create your own delicious edible garden at home! More
and more people are being inspired to grow a little of what they
eat at home. But while starting your own kitchen garden may seem
like a daunting task at first, Grow & Cook makes it easy.
Award-winning author and gardener, Mark Diacono, has distilled
years of knowledge into this pocket-sized book. Whether you are new
to gardening and only have a small window box or you are much more
experienced with the space to experiment, this user-friendly
handbook will inspire and help you. Mark is here to show you that
there are plenty of options for everyone and lots of exciting new
varieties to discover. Each variety in the book includes a wealth
of information on when to sow, growing tips, potential problems,
harvesting and plenty more. There are hundreds of varieties to pick
from that can be grown and then used in your kitchen. Mark
separates the growing guides into three groups: * Vegetables *
Fruit & Nuts * Herbs & Spices Whatever you choose to grow
should suit your lifestyle. You might prefer something tough and
sturdy that doesn't need too much love or time commitment, or you
might get pleasure from the steady graft of looking after your veg
patch. Whichever your circumstances, your kitchen garden should
bring you joy both in the growing process and then in the kitchen.
Grow & Cook is the essential pocket guide for modern gardeners.
Includes: *herb garden design and basic planting info *detailed
sectin on what to do with the herbs, including storing *basic
recipes *recommended species, cultivars and varieties that grow
best in your region *full color primary and garden phontos
throughout *herb plant selection *covers MN/WI/IL/IN/MI/OH
"Lasagna Gardening With Herbs"
Lasagna gardening is sweeping the nation, as more and more
gardeners discover this simple, sensible method of creating healthy
soil for easy-care gardens. Pat Lanza's organic, commonsense
approach takes the backbreaking labor out of preparing and planting
an aromatic, delicious, and low-maintenance herb garden. Discover
Pat's homegrown methods for using more than 50 favorite herbs in
recipes, making herbal wreaths and delicious herbal teas, and
growing and using edible flowers.
"From the first paragraph of "Lasagna Gardening with Herbs" to the
last, I felt as though I had finally found my soil sister. Pat
Lanza writes and gardens with knowledge, passion, and a pioneer
spirit. Her easy-to-implement tips, combined with her encyclopedic
wisdom about plants and soil, make her book indispensable to both
beginning and advanced gardeners."--Sharon Lovejoy, contributing
editor of "Country Living Gardener," a "New York Times" syndicated
contributor, and author of numerous books, including "Trowel &
Error"
"If Pat Lanza sometimes has dirty fingernails, it's because she's a
writer with the hands-on, dig-in-the-dirt passion of a gardener.
When she writes about gardening methods, you know she's tried them.
And with her discovery of lasagna gardening, she's managed to make
it easier for all of us."--Walter Chandoha, animal and garden
photographer and author and illustrator of more than 25 books,
including "The Literary Gardener"
"Pat Lanza is the only one I know who turns the world upside down
when she gardens. She starts with the basics-- dirt first! Her
philosophy is that if you do it right from the garden up and make
it fun and easy, the garden willdo the rest."--Jim Long, columnist
for" The Herb Companion" and" The Herb Quarterly" magazines and
author of books on herbs and history
"Pat Lanza is a true renaissance woman, always inventing new ways
to tackle old tasks. One day she decided to try her lasagna method
of soil improvement with herbs. Did it work? Of course! Her small
garden produced prodigious harvests of delicious aromatic herbs!
"Carpe diem"!"--Jim W. Wilson, horticulturist and author of
numerous books, including "Jim Wilson's Container Gardening"
"About the Author"
Patricia Lanza is a lifelong gardener, a popular speaker, and the
proprietor of the Potager, a garden gift shop and cafe in
Wurtsboro, New York. Her first book about her time-saving garden
methods," Lasagna Gardening," won the prestigious Quill and Trowel
Award from the Garden Writers Association of America.
Voted one of the Top 10 books in 2000 by the Vermont Book
Publishers Association.
A collective endeavor by United Plant Savers, featuring America's
most respected and well-known herbalists.
Contributors include Don Babineau, Tim Blakley, Mark Blumenthal,
Jane Bothwell, Stephen Harrod Buhner, David Bunting, Richo Cech,
Tane Datta, Shatoiya and Rick de la Tour, Ryan Drum, Doug Elliott,
Steven Foster, Cascade Anderson Geller, Kate Gilday, Rosemary
Gladstar, James Green, Pamela Hirsch, Christopher Hobbs, Sara Katz,
Kathi Keville, Robyn Klein, Richard Liebmann, Brigitte Mars, Pam
Montgomery, Nancy and Michael Phillips, Janice J. Schofield, Joanne
Marie Snow, Deb Soule, Paul Strauss, Gregory L. Tilford, Krista
Thie, Susun S. Weed, David Winston, Martin Wall, Matthew Wood.
While the renaissance in the U.S. botanical market is positive in
many respects, medicinal plant populations are suffering from loss
of habitat and overharvesting, and many bestselling herbs are now
at risk including echinacea, American ginseng, goldenseal, Hawaiian
wild kava, and wild yam. The authors share their extensive
experience with using and growing thirty-three of these popular
herbs and include suggestions for creating your own private herbal
sanctuary--whether a city balcony, suburban backyard, or rural
retreat. Full-color photographs will inspire experienced and novice
herb users alike to protect and cultivate these remarkable healing
plants. Readers will also find out how to use herbal analogues for
at-risk plants--other medicinal herbs that provide the same
benefits and exist in plentiful amounts--and learn ways to make
their herbal purchases a vote for sustainability. "Planting the
Future" shows us how we can participate in the land stewardship,
habitat protection, and eco-friendly consumption that will ensure
an abundant, renewable supply of medicinal plants for future
generations.
All author royalties will be used for replanting native medicinal
herbs on a 370-acre botanical sanctuary in Ohio.
Herbs are the most liberating and confidence-boosting of
ingredients: grow some and you feel like a proper gardener, bring
some into the kitchen and you feel like a proper cook. They allow
you to experiment and bring individuality to your cooking while, at
the same time, anchoring you in sound culinary tradition because
herbs are often responsible for those key flavours that 'make' a
dish. Not only that but they are a step on the road to a more
self-sufficient, homegrown, organic way of eating.In the first part
of the book, Nikki explains how to get the most from herbs. She
outlines the basic choosing, picking and using guidelines. The
second part is a catalogue of herbs, each with grow-your-own notes,
flavour descriptions and mini-recipes. Among the forty herbs that
Nikki describes are basil, bay, bergamot, chives, coriander, dill,
fennel, horseradish, hyssop, marigold, marjoram, mint, parsley,
perilla, rocket, rosemary, sage, scented geranium, tarragon, thyme,
wild garlic and winter savory.Following this are over fifty
wonderful and adaptable recipes for everything from herb-scented
cakes and biscuits to soups, stuffings and tarts, where more than
one herb is, or can be, used. With an introduction by Hugh
Fearnley-Whittingstall and full-colour photographs, "Herbs" is a
must-have book for every kitchen.
This is a guide to planning a kitchen garden and cultivating a wide
range of fruits, vegetables and herbs, from sowing and planting
through to harvesting and storage. It also describes the different
cultivation needs of various crops, including the training and
pruning of fruit trees, and routine husbandry, such as weeding,
feeding, mulching and the prevention and control of pests and
diseases.
*** 'Bellamy makes gardening seem simple, expressive and joyful.
Anyone can do it.' - Evening Standard 'Offers a fresh take on
gardening in small spaces.' - Countryside Grow 5 reveals a
brilliantly simple, fast way to make a beautiful garden, whether
you have a small plot or a handful of pots. With 52 planting
'recipes' using a palette of just five plants, you can create: - a
low-carbon flower garden for a changing climate - a micro-meadow in
a city space - an urban garden inspired by an ancient woodland -
high notes of colour in a tiny courtyard - a stylized slice of
nature in a pot This practical and inspirational book by
award-winning garden expert Lucy Bellamy and photographer Jason
Ingram includes more than 100 of the newest and best plants and how
to use them through the seasons.
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