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A plain-English guide to the world of herb gardening

Starting an herb garden isn’t free, but it surely outweighs the growing costs of buying retail herbs. Plus, adding homegrown ingredients to your meals is a healthful and tasty way to improve upon any dish you whip up at home.

This friendly, hands-on guide is an magnificent introduction to the world of herb gardening. It gives you tips and counsel to grow a thriving herb garden that will add depth and flavor to home-cooked meals-as well as boost your health.

• How to choose, plant, and care for herbs
• Covers ready-made versus homemade soil mixes, starting plants from seeds, and other fundamentals
• How to prevent insects, pests, and impairment of normal physiological functions from invading your containers
• Over 30 herb recipes for each day uses, including rubs, marinades, beauty products, and more

Whether you’re fascinated in getting step-by-step instructions for starting on your initial herb garden or already have one and want to learn new tips and techniques, Herb Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition has you covered!

The downside to this book is it is lack of pictures. There are a large total of line drawings, but they tend to show queer stages of a process, rather than each step. Color photos are fixed to one section, and since the photos are discerned from the descriptions, they don’t add much value to the book. With bullet-point lists, icons for highlighting categories like “ecofriendly” or “time-saving,” and simple tables and charts, how-to photos aren’t essential. For folks who learn best with straightforward reading, the activity of formally presenting something won’t be an issue, but if pictorial aids are what you need for learning, look elsewhere. –Jill Lightner

From the PublisherFeatures color photos and an encyclopedia of herbs!

Discover how to:

Understand the dissimilar types of herbs

Landscape with herbs

Cultivate herbs indoors and in containers

Harvest and preserve your herbs

Use herbs for cooking, potpourris, and healthful teas!

From the Back CoverGrow, care for, preserve, and use healthful herbs

Starting an herb garden outweighs the costs of buying marketing herbs. Plus, adding homegrown ingredients to your meals is a healthful and tasty way to improve any dish you make at home. This friendly, hands-on guide gives you tips and counsel 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 fundamentals of growing herbs and the botany principles that’ll help them thrive

• Know before you grow — make a garden plan based on your distinctive 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 basi principles for herb gardens

• The lowdown on soil

• Guidance on how to choose seeds

• How to cut and arid herbs

• Delicious recipes

• An encyclopedia of herbs

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Most helpful client reviews

4 of 4 humans found the following review helpful.
Excellent Book!
By Ann L. Mackenzie
This is a great book for an individual planning an herb garden. There are descriptions of herbs, support in planning a garden, soil needs, plant diseases, ways to preserve herbs, selective information on medicinal herbs and more. I love the Dummies books because they’re always well-written and informative and this book is no exception. A lot of fun to read and very helpful.

3 of 3 persons found the following review helpful.
Really Good….But Better Alternative For Container Gardens
By Ambergris
I will confess up front that I am a self confessed Dummie book fan. I own perchance a dozen of them ranging from bird feeding to weather. I not only find them exceedingly comprehensive in their queer subject matter, but also they always seem to present their material with a humorous touch thrown in. They are interesting and educational, but likewise amusive and agreeably diverting as well. This latest of the series that I picked up is no exception. Herb gardening is something of an idea that I have been batting around for some time now. I’m as much into the idea of it for fun and something to do as I am the potential bounty I hopefully will receive. Which I feel I have a lot in mutual with other folks in that respect as to liking gardening as a hobby. My only problem when it comes to any gardening with me personally is that I have little actual acreage to deal with that may be cultivated. That, and that I likewise have to confess that I am lazy, and have a nice huge deck just begging for a contained herb garden. Although this dummie book devotes an entire chapter to container gardening, it still falls very much short of another book I have that deals quintessentially with growing herbs in pots. Magee and Stuckeys book which I have enclosed a link too. The dummie book would be my firstborn choice if your aim is to dig and maintain a full fledged ground based herb garden. It’s chock full of hints, info, illustrations, step by step guides, you name it as beginning and sustaining your own. And like all dummie books I have read in the past, it begins with their assuming you have never even heard of a herb garden. If you’re a little more experienced than that, you may skip a couple of the opening chapters. But I would suggest you read them anyway. Their very informative and entertaining. But if like me you are mesmerized in keeping your herb garden of the clean, lower maintenance potpourri container type, I would highly suggest you check out the Magee/Stucky book which in my sentiment is the quintessential guide to all forms of container gardening. The dummie book unluckily covers it all, and just falls a little short in that area. Happy gardening!… PS: By the way, the dummie series also has a book out on container gardening as well, but I have not picked it up or read any of it yet. I have no doubt that it is in all likelihood as good as the others in the series, and I would commend checking out the reviews on it as well. McGee & Stuckey’s Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Typically Excellent Starter
By RENAISSANCE MAN
Like most of the “Dummies” series, this is an magnificent and rather comprehensive starter for it is subject. Garden design, soil prep, plant selection, other utile products, selections as to seasons, and even a little medicinal herb selective information is offered. If you are fascinated sufficient to buy this book, perhaps you will fill out a lot of noesis by choosing the a great deal of splendid books with regards to growing herbs, use of herbs with food, and the medicinal use of herbs. The subject of plants is endlessly arousing and attention holding and the science of phytonutrients and medicinal use of plant substances is increasing exponentially… so it is always a good time to get started incorporating more healthful plants and plant extracts in your feed and in your health regimen. This is a good “get acquainted” begin for that. Blessings to you and yours.

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