Complete Guide to Growing and Cultivating Herbs and Spices: Expert Advice to Planting Indoors and Outdoors, the Best Containers, and Storage

by Linda Gray

Overview

Complete Guide to Herbs and Spices is a must-have book for all garden aficionados. Even if you don't have space for an outdoor garden, it's packed with practical information for propagating, growing, using and preserving herbs and spices in large or small spaces to help make you more self sufficient. While addressing both, author Linda Gray emphasizes clay pot and container gardening. Each plant profile contains growing advice for each herb or spice including how to prepare the soil, when to sow and plant, when to harvest and gather, and how to use each herb and spice in food. Herbs include aloe vera, basil, bay leaves, lavender, lemon balm, lovage, and more! Spices include caraway, chili peppers, garlic, horse radish mustard, poppies, saffron and more! Be inspired to create new culinary delights with herb and spice infused recipes, complete with beautiful full-color photography. Recipes include Aloe Vera Juice, Candied Angelica, Tomato and Basil Salad, Bouquet Garni, Blackberry and Apple Crumble, Borage Syrup, Dandelion and Burdock Beer, Caraway Seed Cake and more! Become more self-sufficient and one with nature when you grow and cultivate your own herbs and spices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504801362
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/05/2024
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,031,464
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Linda Gray is an author and passionate advocate for healthy living. For over a decade, she has lived off-the-land while raising her children, and she loves sharing her practical knowledge on gardening and sustainability with others. Linda has authored several mini guides on growing vegetables and herb books that take readers on an enchanting journey through the world of plants. Linda runs the popular Healthy Living Books Facebook page, which keeps readers up-to-date with her latest work. Learn more at www.healthylivingbooks.org.

Editorial Reviews

A treasure chest of herb information. - David Squire, author of A Guide to Wild Food Foraging

From the Publisher

07/01/2024

British gardening expert Gray (Growing Winter Food) spent more than a decade farming in France. Her extensive guide utilizes that background and includes listings for 33 herbs, grown for their leaves and flowers; nine spices, grown for their seeds, roots, stigmas, and bark; and a few multipurpose plants that can be used as both herbs and spices. Entries include background information about each option, its scientific name, and clear photographs of different parts of the plant: leaves, flowers, and seeds. Growing advice, such as how to start indoor plants from seeds, and topics such as root division, cuttings, or layering, are in the book as well. Gray also offers tips for growing plants in containers, harvesting and storing them, and using them for medicinal purposes; she warns readers about the ones that must not be consumed in large quantities. Descriptions are clear, the writing is conversational, and there are recipes too. Backmatter includes a metric cooking conversion chart and index. VERDICT Gardeners of all skill levels will find this title about growing herbs and spices to be helpful and accessible.—Judy Poyer

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