Herb Gardening For Dummies 2e | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780470617786 | Herb Gardening For Dummies 2e | Cutler (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 2010

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Beschreibung

Learn to:

Choose, plant, and care for herbs
Prevent pests and disease from invading your containers
Use homegrown herbs to boost your health, add flavor to meals, and save money

Grow, care for, preserve, and use healthful herbs

Starting an herb garden outweighs the costs of buying retail herbs. Plus, adding homegrown ingredients to your meals is a healthy and tasty way to improve any dish you make at home. This friendly, hands-on guide gives you tips and advice on how to grow a thriving herb garden that will add depth and flavor to home-cooked meals ? as well as boost your health.

Herbs 101 ? get the 4-1-1 on the basics of growing herbs and the botany principles that'll help them thrive
Know before you grow ? make a garden plan based on your unique growing conditions and herb preferences
Get down to the nitty-gritty ? discover how to plant your seeds indoors, when to move them outdoors, and how to care for and maintain them as they grow
Reap what you sow ? find out how to harvest and preserve your herbs and get yummy recipes to use them in your culinary concoctions

Open the book and find:

How to grow herbs in gardens, containers, and on windowsills
Culinary herbs, medicinal herbs, and herbs for health and beauty
Experts tips on what to grow
Design basics for herb gardens
The lowdown on soil
Guidance on how to choose seeds
How to cut and dry herbs
Delicious recipes
An encyclopedia of herbs

Learn to:

Choose, plant, and care for herbs
Prevent pests and disease from invading your containers
Use homegrown herbs to boost your health, add flavor to meals, and save money

Grow, care for, preserve, and use healthful herbs

Herbs 101 ? get the 4-1-1 on the basics of growing herbs and the botany principles that'll help them thrive
Know before you grow ? make a garden plan based on your unique growing conditions and herb preferences
Get down to the nitty-gritty ? discover how to plant your seeds indoors, when to move them outdoors, and how to care for and maintain them as they grow
Reap what you sow ? find out how to harvest and preserve your herbs and get yummy recipes to use them in your culinary concoctions

Open the book and find:

How to grow herbs in gardens, containers, and on windowsills
Culinary herbs, medicinal herbs, and herbs for health and beauty
Experts tips on what to grow
Design basics for herb gardens
The lowdown on soil
Guidance on how to choose seeds
How to cut and dry herbs
Delicious recipes
An encyclopedia of herbs

Über den Autor

Suzanne DeJohn is an editor with the National Gardening Association.
The National Gardening Association is the leading garden-based educational nonprofit organization in the United States, providing resources at [...] and [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

Part I: Herb Basics 5

Chapter 1: Why Grow Herbs? 7

Chapter 2: Herbs 101 19

Part II: Deciding How and What to Grow 35

Chapter 3: Getting to Know Your Home Ground 37

Chapter 4: Designing Your Herb Garden 53

Chapter 5: Herb Garden Plans 63

Chapter 6: Herbs in Containers, Indoors and Out 79

Part III: Getting Down to Earth 103

Chapter 7: There's No Place Like Loam: Preparing Your Soil for Planting 105

Chapter 8: It's Time to Plant 123

Chapter 9: Everyday Care and Feeding 139

Chapter 10: Managing Pests in Your Herb Garden 157

Part IV: Cut and Dried: Handling the Herbal Bounty 175

Chapter 11: Harvesting and Preserving 177

Chapter 12: Culinary Concoctions 191

Chapter 13: Herbs for Healing and Soothing 209

Chapter 14: Herbs for Beauty 219

Chapter 15: Herbs for Hearth and Home 225

Part V: The Part of Tens 235

Chapter 16: Ten Gifts to Make from Herbs You Grow 237

Chapter 17: Ten Lists of Herbs for Different Uses and Garden Situations 245

Appendix: An Encyclopedia of Herbs 251

Index 351

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Hobby & Freizeit
Thema:	Garten & Natur
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	384 S.
ISBN-13:	9780470617786
ISBN-10:	0470617780
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cutler, Karan Davis Fisher, Kathleen Dejohn, Suzanne National Gardening Association
Auflage:	2nd edition
Hersteller:	Wiley John Wiley & Sons
Maße:	235 x 191 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Karan Davis Cutler (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.11.2010
Gewicht:	0,733 kg

Artikel-ID: 107486655