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A practical card deck packed with simple growing and cooking tips
to help you fill your kitchen with herbs Organised by flavours and
uses to enhance your cooking and boost your health with culinary
plants Supported by experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
Packaged in an attractive gift box containing 60 cards organised
into tabbed sections The perfect gift for home gardeners and
kitchen garden cooks  Fill your kitchen with herbs with this
practical herb care deck. Â Create a living trove of fresh
flavours to enhance your cooking and boost your health with these
incredible culinary plants. Organised by potential uses, this
practical card deck will help you to use 60 herbs in the most
interesting ways: from making stunning botanical cocktails to
whipping up delicious home-made pesto. Â The box opens with a
hinged lid to reveal 6 flavour categories and 60 illustrated herb
care cards. Each card includes growing advice and tips for using
the herb to enhance everyday cooking. Â Â Underpinned
by the authority of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this card deck
provides all the information you need to propagate, grow, harvest,
cook—and fill your kitchen with herbs. Â
The new Kew guide to planting and cultivating herbs features 12
easy and inspiring projects as well as detailed information on 80
of the most important species to grow, all accompanied by Kew's
beautiful botanical illustrations. Herbs provide flavours and
scents unlike any other, and the 80 hand-picked herbs in this book
are a living trove of fresh flavours for any cook, with power to
transform the simplest dish. Find out how to grow herbs in beds,
pots, borders and windowboxes, how to plant, and how to propagate
and harvest your herbs, as the kew experts equip you with all you
need to create a flourishing herb garden of your very own.
Following this, 80 of the most important and exciting herbs are
identified, illustrated and their uses explained. This is
accompanied by 12 projects which show how to develop a herb garden
at the next level and use herbs in the most interesting and
creative ways, from planting a herb roof to making herbal oils.
Herbs can be used as seeds, flowers, or leaves; cooked and eaten
themselves or used to infuse a dish or drink. They are high-value
ingredients for foraged dishes, and must-have crops for the best
restaurants as chefs realise that often the only way to capture
their elusive flavour is to grow and harvest fresh herbs on their
doorstep. With this book these intense flavours can now be a
reality for gardeners and home-cooks with any size of garden, from
an acre to a window box. Underpinned by the authority of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew and the expertise of Holly Farrell this book
combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty. This book
is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and
botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice
and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of
gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal
Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to
Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing
Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing
Vegetables and Guide to Growing House Plants.
The UK's leading gardening publisher brings you a horticultural
handbook to fulfil your every need and seed! Get your gardening
gloves on and join the green-fingered journey to growing fruit
successfully at home. A must-have volume for first-time gardeners,
Grow Fruit has tons of tips and tricks to sow, grow, plant and
propagate a diverse range of fruit, from plums to persimmons,
blackcurrants to blueberries, this grower's guide truly has it all!
Try your hand at more than 40 different varieties of fruit trees,
bushes, canes and vines, including allotment plot staples such as
damsons and blackcurrants, as well as lesser-grown options like
kiwis and pineapple guavas. With passion in every page, you can
enjoy: - A jargon-free practical guide to harvesting home-grown
fruits. - Easy to follow step-by-step instructions of fundamental
gardening techniques. - Exploration of popular fruits as well as
lesser-known options. In today's society, the ever-growing pressure
of balancing family life with a career suggests a lot of today's
green-fingered gardeners simply lack time for growing fruit and
vegetables at home. We believe it's time to change that! Whatever
your horticultural hopes may be, author and gardener Holly Farrell
brings you a fantastic fruit-growing guide that is sure to shape
first-time gardeners like never before, full of top tips to help
your garden thrive! An ideal gift for first-time gardeners, budding
botanists or the green-fingered lover in your life, make sure to
get those gardening gloves on, and join the journey today! At DK,
we believe in the power of discovery. If you like Grow Fruit why
not try the other titles in our Grow series? Learn how to brighten
your garden all year round with Grow Bulbs, enjoy a no-fuss guide
to container gardening with Grow Containers or minimise garden
waste with Grow Eco-Gardening. Ready, set, let's grow!
Flowers brighten our homes, our lives and, when they are homegrown,
they also brighten our gardens - not just for us, but also for the
buzzing wildlife that loves their nectar. Growing your own flowers
gives the huge satisfaction of harvesting something from a plant
you have nurtured, and brings a greater connection with nature and
the seasons. It also allows you to have a house full of flowers at
a fraction of the cost of buying them, all with a sustainable,
positive environmental impact. RHS The Little Book of Cut-Flower
Gardening is the perfect introduction to growing your own blooms.
Whether your cut-flower patch is a handful of pots or half an
allotment, you'll find accessible information on successful and
sustainable growing, to keep your plot healthy and as productive as
possible. As well as introductory chapters on planning and
gardening basics, there are details on how to cut your flowers and
extend their vase life, and how to dry flowers for everlasting
arrangements. More than just flowers, the directories break down
the blooms and foliage into their different groups. There are
sections on annuals from seed, such as love-in-a-mist, ammi and
sweet peas; growing bulbs and tubers such as tulips and dahlias;
perennials for flower and foliage, such as lady's mantle, lavender,
roses, apple mint and ornamental grasses; and shrubs and trees for
foliage, flower, spring blossom and colourful winter stems.
NEW EDITION COMING AUGUST 2021 What do avocados, apples, mangos and
tomatoes have in common? The answer is that they can all be grown
at home, for free, from pips that you would otherwise throw into
the recycling bin. RHS Plants from Pips shows you how to grow a
range of fruit and vegetables, indoors and out, with minimum
equipment and experience. This complete guide covers everything
from the science of how plants grow to how to deal with pests and
other problems. Find out what to grow, what to grow it in and when
and where to grow it for the best results. Packed with colourful
photographs and step-by-step illustrations, this is the perfect way
to introduce beginners of all ages, from 6 to 60, to the joys of
watching things grow.
The veg plot and fruit garden are the new starting points for the
healthiest, best cakes - and with this book you can grow and bake
the tastiest cakes with most of the ingredients not far from your
fingertips, all the way from sowing the seeds to cutting the cake.
Choose the best baking varieties for each recipe: grow long sweet
parsnips to grate into parsnip cake, and short baby parsnips for a
tarte-tatin. From blackcurrants for meringues to lavender for
shortbread, from sweet potatoes to spinach, cherries to chillies,
beetroot to basil, and ginger to garlic, all manner of vegetables,
fruit, herbs and flowers can be found in a baker' s kitchen garden.
Grow Your Own Cake helps you to take giant strides on the road to
self-sufficiency while turning your fabulous crops into sweet,
savoury, floral and delicate treats. We say: grow it, bake it, eat
it!
Discover more than 100 ideas to help you become an eco-friendly
gardener. RHS Do Bees Need Weeds is packed with more than 100
practical questions and answers to help you become a more
eco-friendly gardener, and show you how to adopt a more sustainable
way of gardening. The book includes simple, low-cost ideas, from
fun projects such as how to build a wormery or a homemade water
butt to advice on which plants suit bees best and how to achieve a
zero-waste garden. In these pages you will find dozens of solutions
to common garden problems as well as inspiring innovations that
reduce your gardening consumption, tackle waste and help the
environment. Filled with fascinating facts and ideas that will help
you make a real difference to the green credentials of your garden,
this book is both informative and entertaining, with plenty of
I-never-knew-that mini-features. This is a book you and your family
need, and one that you'll all enjoy, too. Includes questions such
as: - Which features will make my garden greener? - Are my garden
lights harmful? - How can a lawn be wildlife-friendly? - Is it ever
OK to have a bonfire? - Are there alternatives to plastic? - Can I
grow year-round crops? - Is it OK to buy compost?
Put the fun into gardening with this great family guide to growing
plants indoors and out, all year round. How do plants work? How can
I grow tomatoes? How can I encourage garden wildlife? RHS Get
Growing will answer all these questions in a fun and accessible
guide. Perfect for parents and children who enjoy engaging with the
outdoors and want to do more activities together, or for beginner
gardeners just starting out, this book explains how plants work,
describes the building blocks of gardening, and shows how to grow
everything from cacti to cucumbers. With great facts and practical
projects, giving the reader a lot of information, it's an ideal,
hands-on introduction for complete beginners, and designed to
inspire a life-long love of gardening. In this book, you will learn
to: Learn about the plants and animals that make up the ecosystem
of any garden Plant seeds together with your children and watch as
they grow Carry out experiments - from making a wormery to mapping
rain shadows Make delicious recipes from your home-grown produce
The projects and experiments are bite-sized and self-contained,
ideal for weekends, holidays and even home-schooling. This book is
ideal for parents and teachers who want to get kids connected with
nature, experiencing the world and relating to the food that they
eat. All the guidance is backed by scientific and educational
research, drawn together by the team of RHS experts. Get your
children growing shoots and seeds, whatever their ages, and watch
them fall in love with the natural world with RHS Get Growing, the
complete family gardening guide.
The Little Book of Wild Gardening is a guide for anyone wanting to
garden in a more sustainable, natural way. Working with nature
benefits not just the garden, but also the gardener, wildlife and
the wider environment. Divided into sections for different garden
areas - including lawns, flower beds, edibles, trees and water
features - The Little Book of Wild Gardening details how to embrace
a natural approach to gardening for plots large and small.
Introductory chapters explain how garden ecosystems can work, and
how a healthy garden can mean savings in both work and resources
for the gardener. There are plant profiles providing a variety of
choices for a wilder approach, plus design tips and expertise in
sustainable and wildlife-friendly gardening. From a sustainable veg
patch to wildflower meadows, and from bat boxes to gravel gardens,
the book includes projects and plants in a range of sizes and
timescales so gardeners can create a bountiful and enjoyable haven
that will benefit themselves, their local area, and all kinds of
wildlife.
'Gardening is the best medicine for the mind' - the Guardian
Gardening, like mindfulness, is a way of finding a sense of calm in
an otherwise chaotic world, a simpler existence, even if it is only
for a few minutes. Both forge a connection to the world around us,
to nature and wildlife, which can bring pleasure and peace. In this
beautifully illustrated guide to gardening for mindfulness,
horticulturalist and mindfulness practitioner Holly Farrell
provides a blueprint for a more contemplative way to garden,
including projects, meditations and inspiration. Projects for the
mindful gardener, including growing something from seed, planting a
tree and creating a mandala, put the theory of mindfulness into
practice, while plant lists and design ideas aim to enhance
mindfulness in the garden through the senses. Easy to follow and
beautifully packaged in a new format, this is the perfect book for
keen gardeners, devotees of mindfulness, or simply those looking
for calm in a busy and hectic world.
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