Herb Gardening For Dummies

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