160 Pages, Hardcover. A Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs- Plus Cooking, Crafts, and More! Inhale the elegant aromas of mint, lavender, and lemon balm as you wander through your garden on a warm summer evening. Add extra flavor to your cooking with herbs picked fresh that day. Share the bounty of your garden by giving special gifts of potpourri, mint jelly, or herbal vinegar. These are just a few of the delights that lie ahead when you grow your own herbs. Your Backyard Herb Garden shows you how easy and pleasurable growing herbs can be. Miranda Smith gives you sound advice on choosing plants and matching them to the conditions in your yard. With the help of easy-to-follow photos and illustrations, she explains clearly how to prepare the soil, how to grow herbs from seeds or transplants, and how to care for your herbs once they're up and growing. You'll also find a wealth of information about propagating your herbs, preparing them for winter, and caring for them indoors, plus the best all-natural methods for protecting them from pests and diseases. Above all, Your Backyard Herb Garden shows you how to use and enjoy all the wonderful herbs your garden will produce. You'll learn how to harvest, dry, and freeze herbs, and how to make herbal vinegars, teas, seasonings, flavored cooking oils, jellies, and honeys. You'll also discover effective ways of using herbs to improve your health with infusions, salves, and tinctures. Finally, you'll learn how to fill your life with the scent of herbs as you make shampoos and skin creams, potpourris, pillows, bouquets, and wreaths.

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