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HERB sa ANISE sa ANTHEMIS sa ANTHRISCUS sa ARTEMISIA sa ASPERULA sa BORAGO (BORAGE) sa CALENDULA sa CARAWAY sa CARTHAMUS sa CHIVES sa CICHORIUM sa CORIANDER sa CYMBOPOGON sa DILL sa EUPATORIUM sa FENNEL sa GARLIC sa GERANIUM & PELARGONIUM sa GINSENG sa HERB DRYING & PREPARATION sa HERB GARDENING sa HERBAL REMEDIES sa HOREHOUND sa HORSE-RADISH sa HYSSOPUS sa LAVANDULA (LAVENDER) sa LEMON BALM sa LICORICE sa LOVAGE sa MINT sa MONARDA sa MUSTARD sa MYRRHIS sa NASTURTIUM sa NEPETA sa NETTLE sa OCIMUM sa OREGANO sa PARSLEY sa ROSEMARY sa RUMEX sa SAINT JOHN'S-WORT sa SALVIA sa SANGUISORBA sa SAPONARIA sa SAVORY sa SHALLOT sa SPICE sa SWEET MARJORAM sa SYMPHYTUM sa TANACETUM sa TARRAGON sa TEA sa THYME sa VALERIANA xx HERB GARDENING xx PLANT xx SPICE A guide to growing herbs and vegetables on a balcony, in the city. Projects to give a kitchen a facelift include an over-the-sink herb garden planted in a 3-ft. length of gutter. A look at herbs to grow in your garden, with growing tips on twenty of the most popular ones. Also includes information on making pomander balls, herb wreaths, sachets and potpourris. Tips on how to grow, harvest, dry and freeze your own herbs. How to grow, preserve and use herbs. Tips on designing an herb garden. Plant a fragrance garden. Suggestions on flowers, herbs and shrubs that add fragrance to the yard. Tips on landscaping with herbs. Make a window-box herb garden. A guide to growing your own fresh herbs. Tips on growing an herb garden, both indoor and out, and harvesting and drying the herbs. A look at growing, drying and marketing herbs. Herbs for the shady spot. A guide to starting a herb garden. Growing and using herbs. Herbs. Part 1. Ten easy-to-grow herbs, plus some tips on drying and use. Herbs. Part 2. Nine more herbs, plus tips on drying and use. Tips on using herbs as insect repellants. How to grow and use herbs. Covers using fresh herbs, harvesting and preserving herbs, and using dried herbs. Includes recipes for herb tea, sage tea, an all-purpose herb mixture, herb vinegar, herb bath packets and Colonial Potpourri. How to layout, plant and tend a Colonial-style herb garden. Reuter's list of medicinal garden plants. Includes a layout for a medicinal garden. Growing herbs and vegetables indoors. Covers raising lettuce and tomatoes, radishes and onions, celery, cress, and herbs. Ten herbs for a windowsill garden. Planter box for indoor herb garden looks like a painted picket fence. Est. cost: $8. Herb planter designed to hang on the wall next to your kitchen window. Est. cost: $5. Tip: Plant bee balm (Monarda didyma) in 2-gallon pots sunk in the garden to control its invasive nature. Tips on keeping tiny hedges of santolina and lavender from growing lanky and flopping open from the center. Mexican culinary herbs to add spice to both garden and kitchen. A guide to growing cilantro (Coriandrum sativum), epazote (Chenopodium ambrosiodes), Mexican marigold mint (Tagetes lucida), Mexican oregano (Poliomintha longiflora), Mexican oregano (Lippia graveolens) and hoja santa (Piper auritum). Choice ornamentals from the herb garden. An easy kitchen herb garden for beginners. A look at herbs to grow in your flower garden. Tips on raising the South African blood-lily (Haemanthus). A dooryard herb garden. A diagram of a small 6x10-ft. space for use as a herb garden, along with a key for plants to be used. Eleven tips for making use of surplus herbs. How to plant a Shaker-style herb garden. Bouquet garni, a herb-planted strawberry jar. How to plant a jar that summers outside and winters indoors. How to grow sorrel. Tips on growing and drying herbs. Also includes recipes for herb wines, vinegars, and lavender toilet water. Herbal homegrowns. Tips on raising your own herbs from seeds or plants. Poi polloi. Tips on raising and eating elephant-ear. The sensual herbs. Easy herbs and flowers to bloom all season. Garden pharmacy. Planting a herbal medicine chest. A look at feverfew, purple coneflower, chamomile, valerian, yarrow and garlic. A guide to native American herbs: bloodroot, mayapple, purple coneflower, sweet flag, butterfly weed, Joe-Pye weed and sumac. Step-by-step photos show how to plant a tabletop herb garden. A sampler of unusual herbs, most of which are suitable for pot culture. Starting a club or group for people interested in raising herbs. Some tips. Herb trees. A brief introduction to 13 of the more unusual arboreal herbs. Includes general information on their cultivation and use. Six rules of "etiquette" when purchasing herb plants. Lemon herbs. A brief introduction to 9 plants which have a lemon scent. Includes a layout for a lemon garden. Herbs by mail. Advice on avoiding name confusions when ordering from catalogs, what to expect when an order arrives and tips on immediate care for the plants. The forgotten potherbs and advice on collecting them from the wild. (1) Orach (Atriplex hortensis). (2) Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica). (3) Skirret (Sium sisarum). (4) Mallows (Althaea officinalis). (5) Cleavers (Galium verum). (6) Hops (Humulus lupulus). (7) Plantain (Plantago major). (8) Lamb's Quarters (Chenopodium album). Za'tar, a blend of Middle East herbs and spices. A look at the major za'tar herbs and tips on growing them in North America. Pages from the past. The joys of collecting early herbals and stillroom books. Suggestions on where to find them, prices and on the care of old books. Includes a chronology of old (350 B.C.-1755 A.D.) herbals and important modern (1901-1958) herbals. Indian herbs you can grow. A guide to the culture and use of nigella, fenugreek, sesame, asafetida, curry leaf, cardamom and ginger. Miniature herbs. A guide to some vigorous varieties and their culture. Tips on flowering herbs that will enhance a garden. Good-King-Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus) herb described. Includes a recipe for mixed spring greens salad that uses the herb's leaves. Herbal education. Advice on setting goals and checking out alternatives that suit your interests and aptitude. How to take root cuttings to multiply herbs. Classic annual herbs. A guide to dependable plants that afford long-lasting color and seed that can be saved. Descriptions of Love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus), borage, coreopsis or tickseed, nicotiana, signet marigolds, canary creeper, opium poppy, clary sage, honeywort, perilla and orach. Lessons from a wild garden. A look at the herbs that grow beautifully and prolifically in an untended state. Balm-of-Gilead, an herb to know. Four species from four different families. (1) Abies balsamaea. (2) Cedronella canariensis. (3) Liquidambar orientalis. (4) Populus 'Candicans'. Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), for food and medicine. Spring cleaning with herbs. Recipes for herb soap concentrate, citrus scouring powder, fragrant wood polish, herbal rug fragrance, disinfectant air freshener, drawer spray and three sachet blends. Herbs of the seashore. An introduction to bladderwrack, nori and carrageen. Collecting tips. Includes a recipe for a carrageenan cough syrup. Advice on buying herb plants from garden centers, nurseries that specialize in herbs and by mail-order. Advice on how to identify unknown herbs. Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), an herb to know. Its culture and medicinal uses. Our-Lady's bedstraw (Galium verum), an herb to know. Its culture and uses. Includes recipe for making red and yellow dyes from the roots and flowering tops. Keep it clean. Simple cleaning products to make using herbs. Recipes for (1) Eucalyptus-mint soap, (2) scented soft soap, (3) Eucalyptus, lavender and tea tree spray cleaner, (4) Carnauba and lavender furniture wax, (5) Lavender-ginger upholstery cleaner and rug shampoo, (6) Lemon-mint window wash, (7) Laundry concentrate, (8) Delicate garment soap with lavender, (9) Beeswax saddle soap, (10) Boot and saddle conditioner, (11) Soap for bed linens. Marsh mallow (Althaea officinalis), its culture and medicinal uses. Burdock (Arctium lappa), an herb to know. Its culture, and medicinal and culinary uses. Small world, big taste. A look at exotic herbs, greens and peppers from other cultures that can be grown in American gardens. Pint-size herb garden is planted in two 4x4-ft. raised beds. How to build the frames, prepare the beds, layout and plant the herbs. Growing herbs indoors. Herb appeal. Creative ways to add spice to your garden. Five designs for small herb gardens. Raising herbs indoors. Herbs for the kitchen. Tips on culinary herbs that are suitable for outdoor culture in a temperate climate (USDA Zone 6). Flowering herbs. A look at early, midsummer and late-summer herbs grown primarily for their flowers. Advice on herbs that will do well indoors on the windowsill during winter months. Lemon herbs. A guide to lemon verbena, lemon balm, lemon basil, lemon thyme and lemongrass. Plant a miniature herb garden. Tips on raising houseplants you can eat, including aloe, parsley, coriander and chives. How to start a home herb business. A look at raising catnip as a cash crop. How to grow herbs for use as pesticides. A look at perennial salad herbs to plant in the fall. An hebal medicine chest. Part 1. Seven herbs to grow and harvest: comfrey, echinacea, garlic, angelica, calendula, valerian and chamomile. Beginning gardening. Advice for those creating a first-time-ever vegetable, flower or herb garden. How to transplant herbs. Includes tips on planting an herb garden. How to plant an herb garden to attract bees. A look at how to control insects through the use of herbs. A case history of gardening in raised beds written by an herb grower in Oregon. A look at some perennial herbs that are good in a late garden and can be used as salad greens and vegetables. Information on salad burnet, French sorrel, Chinese bok choy, and Jerusalem artichoke. A special issue on herbs. Articles cover (1) the small-scale growing and selling of herbs, (2) herb gardening outdoors in containers, (3) herbs that repel insects, (4) culinary and medicinal herbs that can be raised in a 4x4-ft. patch, (5) a flower garden filled with annual and perennial herbs, (6) growing herbs indoors in pots, (7) guidelines on when to harvest and propagate herbs, (8) how to find and use wild spices, (9) a look at herb lore and legend, (10) how to grow French Tarragon, (11) how to grow dill, (12) the basics of cooking with herbs, and (13) how to make homegrown herb tea. How to protect a herb garden during the winter. How to grow sesame and harvest the seeds. How to start a kitchen herb garden. How to preserve garden herbs. How to grow herbs indoors. Tips on harvesting herbs. Herbs to plant in your vegetable garden. How to raise herbs in a strawberry jar. Lawns in herbs. Inventive California gardeners describe herbal alternatives to energy-eating turf. Winter windowsill gardening. Grow lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and herbs without a greenhouse. Herbs for a spice garden. How to raise your own caraway, anise, dill, coriander and other spices. Tips on raising Chinese water chestnuts. Have fresh herbs all winter with late-summer planting. How to raise saffron crocus, an exotic, expensive spice if purchased in the store. How to grow a backdoor herb garden. Tips on growing cucumber-flavored herbs. How to raise winter savory, a hardy perennial. Tips on propagating herbs to give as Christmas gifts. Tips on raising and using southernwood (Artemisia Abrotanum). A Mexican kitchen garden. Grow chiles, tomatillos and cilantro for use in Mexican dishes. A guide to herbs that will do well in the South. Three garden plans that combine vegetables, flowers and herbs for a beautiful, edible border. An everlasting garden. A plan for a circular garden, 16-ft. in diameter, that includes 12 herbs and some additional flowers that can all be dried for use in arrangements and wreaths. Santolina. Tips on growing and using this herb. Plant a fragrant herb garden. An easy-care plan for a collection of 19 herbs. Living mulches. Ten easy-care ground covers for year-round color in the landscape. Also notes eight creeping herbs that make excellent low covers and are suitable for interplanting with shrubs and perennials. A guide to self-sowing annuals, perennials, vegetables and herbs. Tips on herbs that grow well on the windowsill. A look at nine lemon-scented plants you can grow in your herb garden. Tips on choosing and raising several varieties of acanthus. A guide to 20 herbs for the home garden. Includes chart that suggests uses in food and around the house and gives planting suggestions How to raise herbs in a plastic-lined wicker basket. Suggestions on herbs to grow in dry gardens. Seven fresh herbs to grow all winter. A guide to Japanese herbs, how to grow and use six of them. Growing mild, tender herbs as garnishes or greens. Some tips. Tips on taking cuttings from garden herbs to grow them indoors during the winter. Grow a garden in a pocket planter. Four new looks for the classic strawberry pot. (1) Soft grass pot. (2) Herb pot. (3) Succulent pot. (4) Rose pot. What herbs to grow and how to use them. How to grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, broccoli, beans, salad greens and herbs indoors. How to care for Firefern Oxalis (Oxalis hedysaroides rubra). How to care for Magic Carpet (Saxifraga stolonifera tricolor). How to grow a Piggy-Back plant (Tolmeia). How to grow Calceolaria from seed. A guide to raising annual herbs. Decorative gardens you can eat. Table centerpiece gardens of sprouts, salad greens, chives and herbs. Includes planting and harvesting instructions. | |||||||||
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