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Overview
Herbs add fragrance, beauty and practicality to your garden -- and it's easy to grow a wide variety of them just about anywhere here in the Midwest. This book, written by Laura Peters and coauthored by veteran Ohio garden writer Debra Knapke, offers handy tips and advice on: growing, maintaining and harvesting 360 of the best herbs for local gardens; propagation and winter care; solutions to common garden problems. This practical book will help you participate in the age-old tradition of using herbs to flavor foods, add seductive scents to potpourris and perfumes, and impart healthful, healing qualities to lotions and lip balms:• Exotic herbs such as kaffir lime, lemongrass, jasmine, fenugreek and stevia can be grown easily here.
• Edible flowers such as nasturtiums and calendula can add flavor and interest to salads, teas, honeys and butters.
• Fragrant herbs such as basil, rosemary and sage can be used in infusions, herbal baths and soaps.
Synopsis
The herb garden holds special status in the realm of gardening. It is an unbeatable source of fresh flavor for home cooking, of folkloric remedies for common ailments and of delightful beauty for the gardening enthusiast. Herbs encompass a wide range of useful plants: everything from herbaceous perennials to trees, shrubs, vines, lichens and fungi. Herbs may be culinary in use or medicinal. They can flavor soup or act as a natural pesticide. In Herb Gardening for the Midwest, the authors profile 90 herbs that can be grown under regional conditions and provide ample information concerning cultivation and care.