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Your Indoor Herb Garden D.J. Herda

Your Indoor Herb Garden By D.J. Herda

Your Indoor Herb Garden by D.J. Herda

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Your Indoor Herb Garden is a comprehensive guide to the techniques and equipment for successfully growing culinary and medicinal herbs indoors. Written by a Master Gardener with five decades of experience in herb growing, it also includes coverage of herb harvesting, use, and lore and history.

Your Indoor Herb Garden Summary

Your Indoor Herb Garden: Growing and Harvesting Herbs at Home by D.J. Herda

The complete how-to guide for growing herbs indoors for health, vitality, and culinary zest

Learn how to grow herbs for health, for taste, and for life with Your Indoor Herb Garden, a comprehensive guide to growing herbs indoors. Featuring all the tips and guidance you'll need to grow and harvest organic culinary and medicinal herbs right in your own home. Coverage includes:

  • Techniques for successfully growing herbs indoors
  • Equipment, soil types, and feeding
  • Why indoor herb gardens are an important part of life, from cooking to healing
  • Herbal medicine
  • Herbal history and lore
  • An annotated glossary of herbs, including their common uses, growing requirements, cautions, and more.

Growing herbs indoors leads the list of the healthiest and most useful indoor activities we can do. Herbs can clean the air of toxins, provide oxygen and humidity, and help vanquish our psychoses. And they're tasty!

This is the ideal practical guide for gardeners and cooks with an interest in healthy living and fresh flavors looking to create their own indoor herb garden anywhere.

About D.J. Herda

D.J. Herda is a professional author, gourmet chef, and master indoor/outdoor gardener. He is a former Challenger Space Center project creator/coordinator, syndicated newspaper and magazine garden writer and columnist, and test grower for Jackson & Perkins and the Rodale Institute, along with other recognized innovators in gardening plants and practices. He has written and published more than 80 books and thousands of short pieces. As an avid chef, D.J. has been cooking with dried and fresh herbs for more than 50 years and has been growing herbs indoors in pots for nearly as long. He lives and works in the Rocky Mountains of the southwestern United States. www.djherda.org

Table of Contents

1. Welcome to My World
An introduction explaining why herbs are an essential part of my life-and why they should be in yours, as well.

2 Herbal Life and Lore
From 5000 BC to the present- a fascinating historical look into the background of herbs.

3 From Magic to Medicine
Herbal medicine, how it began, and where it is in modern society.

4 Growing and Harvesting Herbs Indoors
A general introduction into how-to do it, equipment required, best soil types, feeding, etc.

5 Using Herbs at Home
Employing the use of herbs in cooking, bouquet garni, fines herbes, herb vinegar, drying, health foods, etc.

6 An Annotated Glossary of Herbs
Most important herbs, historical references, most common uses, growing tips, cautions, and other useful information.

Endnotes
About the Author
About the Publisher

Additional information

GOR013494470
9780865719330
0865719330
Your Indoor Herb Garden: Growing and Harvesting Herbs at Home by D.J. Herda
D.J. Herda
Homegrown City Life
Used - Very Good
Paperback
New Society Publishers
20200505
144
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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