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If there is one fruit everyone should grow, strawberries. It's the quickest to bear fruit and grow with ease. Homegrown strawberries deliver a delicious aroma and melt-in-your-mouth sweetness unlike any store-bought berries you ever tasted.

This e-handbook gives you instruction on how to grow your own juicy red strawberries. Chapters include:

• Selecting Your Best-Bet Berries
• Preparing to Plant
• How to Plant
• Cultivating
• Fertilizing
• Irrigating
• Protection Against Winterkill
• Harvesting
• Renewing the Strawberry Bed
• Other Ways of Growing
• Diseases and Pests

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The tea garden is a sensory delight, producing colors, scents and flavors to enjoy throughout the season -- and the plants are easy to grow.

This e-handbook discusses what tea is and its different variations. You'll learn how to plant, maintain and harvest a tea garden, including what herbs to use. Brewing and herbal tea blends are also covered. Relax with a cup of herbal tea from your own garden or give tea blend packages as gifts. 36 pages.

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The chive is a hardy perennial herb that can be used as a simple, rustic floral arrangement that secretly doubles as a condiment. Chives are among the easiest and most rewarding herbs for the home gardener to grow. They are hardy and thrive in a variety of climates.

This e-handbook provides instruction on how to grow chives indoors or out -- and what containers to use doing so. You'll learn all about harvesting, drying and freezing, as well as how to make chive floral arrangements. Recipes include:

• Beef Antipasto with Chive Salsa
• Chived Green Beans
• Garlic-Chive Potato Salad
• Garlic, Chive and Ginger Chicken
• Buttermilk Chive Dressing
• Goat Cheese Tartlets

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Healing with plants is not a new idea by any means. For centuries, people have used plants from their own environments to heal their ailments and to support their health. If you like plants that are healing, practical, decorative, tasty, nutritious, fragrant and otherwise useful, grow a gardenful of herbs.

Each of the herbs in this e-handbook is specially suited for soothing and relieving coughs, sore throats, and congestion that come with colds and flu. You'll find instructions on growing herbs including cayenne, echinacea, garlic, peppermint and thyme, plus recipes for homemade cold and flu remedies including:

• Peppermint Inhalation
• Stimulating Rosemary Bath
• Thyme-infused Honey
• Catnip Tea
• Echinacea Tincture
• Dual-purpose Ginger Stir-fry
• Garlicky Herbal Broth

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Echinacea is a wonderful herb for keeping colds and the flu at bay. Taken at the first sign of cold or flu symptoms, especially with nasal congestion present, echinacea’s infection-fighting, immune-boosting power is strong and effective medicine.

This e-handbook gives a history of the herb, its uses, how to grow it, recipes for remedies and doses. By keeping this herb on hand and following these instructions, you can ward off that nasty cold or energy-zapping flu. 36 pages.

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Herbs are a great way to enhance the flavor of your food. They also have medicinal uses. The best way to learn about using herbs is to grow your own.

This e-handbook will tell you how to grow, preserve and use 15 of the most popular kitchen herbs, including basil, dill, oregano, parsley and more. You'll find instructions on how to plant, harvest and cook with herbs. 36 pages.

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Incense evokes a sense of luxury, of being in an exotic place where spices and aromas lift the spirits and making the home more welcoming, inviting and pleasant.

This e-handbook describes the history of incense, selecting the right ingredients, making and burning smudge sticks, making and burning loose noncombustible mix and incense recipes that include:

• Forest Fantasy
• Sandalwood
• A Walk in the Woods
• Clear the Air
• Vanilla Lavender
• Kitchen Spice Insense

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As early as the 1400s, oregano had a variety of medicinal, cosmetic and household uses. Most varieties of oregano are good for cooking, several work well as ground covers, and the tender oreganos, including the dittany group, make great houseplants. Growing both the hardy and tender varieties is relatively easy if you can provide for their basic needs.

This e-handbook shows you how to grow oregano, use it in crafts and for medicinal purposes. Recipes for cooking with oregano include:

• Oregano Butter
• Italian Bean Salad
• Greek Chicken
• Lean Herb Sausage
• The Ultimate Pizza
• Oregano Bread
• Easy Vegetarian Lasagna

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Tarragon has a somewhat licorice-like taste and a gift for making almost any food taste wonderful! Unlike other herbs, it does not grow from seeds and there are many varieties including French, Mexican and Russian.

This e-handbook describes the history of tarragon, how to plant it, its medicinal uses and many recipes including:

• Tarragon Vinegar
• Strawberry-Tarragon Jam
• Creamy Tarragon Dip
• Tarragon-Tomato Soup
• Beef Kebabs with Tarragon
• Mushroom and Tarragon Baked Fish

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Basil is one of the most popular and widely grown herbs in the world, valued for both its culinary and aesthetic appeal. Sweet basil, with its wonderful aroma and flavor, enlivens many dishes, blending nicely with fish, poultry, beans, cheese and eggs, as well as a wide range of vegetables.

This e-handbook describes the different varieties of basil, and how to grow, harvest and use it. Basil combines well with other herbs: oregano, sweet marjoram, thyme and parsley. Delicious recipes using basil include:

• Basil Pesto
• Potato and Basil Gratin
• Basil Butter
• Cinnamon Basil Custard
• Lemon Basil Tea Bread
• Baked Fish Anise Basil Tomato Sauce