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| What Can I Do with My Herbs?: How to Grow, Use, and Enjoy These Versatile Plants (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) |
Barrett writes naturally, engagingly, and with ease." --Cheryl Hazeltine, coauthor of "The New Central Texas Gardener""A convenient, comprehensive, and easy-to-read users' guide to all the herbs you'll want to grow.
Barrett tells you what you want to know to make the best use of the plants you love." --Susan Wittig, author of the bestselling "China Bayles Herbal Mysteries""There is much to like about Judy Barrett's "What Can I Do with My Herbs? " From the title to the final recommendation encouraging greater use of herbs in the landscape, I found it great fun to read and learned a lot.
Barrett writes naturally, engagingly, and with ease." --Cheryl Hazeltine, coauthor of "The New Central Texas Gardener"" . . . . a practical, approachable, and really useful guide to enjoying your homegrown herbs everyday." --Renee Shepherd, president and owner of Renee's Garden Seed About the Author JUDY BARRETT, editor and publisher of the bimonthly magazine Homegrown, also is the author of Tomatillos: A Gardener's Dream, A Cook's Delight and How to Become an Organic Gardener in Seven Easy Steps.
She lives in Taylor, Texas.
With tips covering everything from artemisia to vetiver grass, What Can I Do with My Herbs? offers a fun and lively look at forty common herbs and the creative and useful things people do with them.
Each herb description includes the plant's history and a list of popular uses, as well as helpful information about how to successfully grow them, how to enjoy them in the garden (watch the swallowtail butterflies and caterpillars that love fennel), or how to use them in the kitchen (substitute the yellow flowers of calendula for saffron).
Judy Barrett even shares some of her favorite recipes, including lavender lemonade and thyme cheese rolls. Barrett also suggests uses for each specific herb outside the kitchen. Readers will learn how to bathe with basil, fight fungus with chamomile, fertilize with comfrey, clean house with rosemary, and much, much more.
Gardeners, herbalists, and anyone interested in learning more about herbs will relish this compact and easy-to-understand practical guide to growing and enjoying these versatile plants.
Consumer review about What Can I Do with My Herbs?: How to Grow, Use, and Enjoy These Versatile Plants (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) :
This book can serve as a good store of information on herbs. It probably is not for a beginning grower. For some herbs there is very little information on planting directions, meaning, the amount of sunlight required is given and climate, but there is little instruction on how to sow seeds or depth of placing plants in the ground. There are colour drawings for each herb.However there is an abundance of other information; for each herb there is a section that tells its history, about similarly named plants and cautions on what should or should not be eaten. The growth habits and needs are covered, as well as some cooking instructions.Here again a novice grower might wonder, do I harvest the stems, or flowers as well as the leaves? When do I harvest them, in the early stages or wait until they seem to be mature? There is information on how to deter pests with the herbs themselves and what the herb is known to do; to "soothe" with it, such as a decoction of bay leaves added to the bath relives aching limbs. The author is careful to give a good caution that herbs can be powerful and should not be taken without the advice of a professional.This would serve as a basic textbook for information on herbs.(Read more)
What Can I Do with My Herbs?: How to Grow, Use, and Enjoy These Versatile Plants (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series)
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