Homegrown Herbs: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Enjoying More than 100 Herbs

Tammi Hartung

Storey Publishing, LLC, Apr 15, 2015 - Gardening - 256 pages

Enjoy a thriving, fragrant herb garden and use your harvest to bring beauty, flavor, and health to your everyday life. Tammi Hartung provides in-depth profiles of 101 popular herbs, including information on seed selection, planting, maintenance, harvesting, and drying. Hartung also shows you how to use your herbs in a variety of foods, home remedies, body care products, and crafts. Whether you’re a seasoned herbalist or planting your first garden, Homegrown Herbs will inspire you to get the most out of your herbs. 

Contents

• Acknowledgments: 4
• Foreword: 5
• Preface: 8
• An Introduction to Growing and Using Herbal Plants: 11
• Selecting Plants and Designing Your Garden: 17
• Secrets to Great Soil: 57
• Propagation Methods: 67
• Garden Maintenance: 83
• Pest and Disease Control: 95
• Harvesting from the Garden: 113
• Making Herbal Preparations for Medicine and Personal Care: 135
• Cooking with Herbs: 151
• Herb Personalities: 173
• Resources: 245
• Recommended Reading: 246
• Index: 247

About the author

Tammi Hartung is the author of Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine, Homegrown Herbs, and The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Gardener. She has been growing and working with herbs for more than 40 years and is a frequent teacher and lecturer. She and her husband cultivate more than 1800 varieties of herbs, heirloom food plants, and perennial seed crops on their organic farm in Colorado.
 

Rosemary Gladstar is the best-selling author of nine books including Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide, Herbs for Children’s Health, and Rosemary Gladstar’s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, which draw on her 40-plus years of experiences studying and teaching about the healing properties of herbs. She is a world-renowned educator, activist, and entrepreneur and the founding director of Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center, the International Herb Symposium, and the New England Women’s Herbal Conference. Gladstar is founding president of United Plant Savers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation and preservation of native American herbs. She was the original formulator for Traditional Medicinal herbal teas and has led herbal educational adventures around the world. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and serves on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine and The National Health Freedom Coalition. She lives in Vermont. 

Bibliographic information

• Title: Homegrown Herbs: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Enjoying More than 100 Herbs
• Author: Tammi Hartung
• Contributor: Rosemary Gladstar
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 2015
• ISBN: 1612124674, 9781612124674
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Herbs, Spices, Condiments; Gardening / Herbs; Health & Fitness / Healthy Living & Personal Hygiene