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Cooking and gardening come together in this delightfully green book of herb-gardening tips and flavor-packed herb-based recipes. From the garden to the kitchen, experience the pleasure of growing, harvesting, and cooking with your own organic herbs, such as dill, basil, thyme, oregano, coriander, ginger, fennel and sage.

Learn how to plant and cultivate 15 of the best fresh herbs, and then move to the kitchen to utilize each herb in more than 150 innovative and delicious recipes, such as:

• Chicken and Cilantro Stuffed Peppers
• Asparagus with Tarragon Butter Sauce
• Dilled Barley Soup with Vegetables
• Roast Leg of Lamb with Garlic, Lemon and Parsley Dressing
• Savory Mushroom Quiche
• Pork Roast with Mushroom Sauce
• Ginger and Pear Muffins
• Rosemary Grilled Chicken

With ample room to jot down notes and recipes, you can add, modify or create your own culinary endeavors as you move through each chapter. Highlighted with history, cooking tips and information about herbal health benefits, this is the only book you need to grow green and eat well.

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Like the Victory Gardens of World War II, food gardens planted in sunny back or side yards during these economically challenging times can provide families with nourishing, delicious food at a fraction of what it would cost at a supermarket. What's more, families know that the food they grow themselves, with minimal or natural pesticides and minimal or no synthetic fertilizers, is safe from the many E. coli, salmonella and other tainted-food scares of recent years.

Homegrown Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs: A Bountiful, Healthful Garden for Lean Times will help aspiring gardeners avoid disappointment or failure when tending their first food gardens, and it will help families who are already growing food crops to grow more and reduce their food costs.

Inside, you'll find:

• 275 instructional and inspiring color photographs from a seasoned garden photographer
• Dozens of hints and tips, many of which will interest even experienced gardeners
• Selecting the site for a food garden and setting a realistic size
• No-till gardening
• Making food gardening easier and cheaper
• Fertilizers, soil conditioners, mulches, green manures, tonics and do-it-yourself soil tests
• Understanding garden soils and nutrients
• Ways to keep crops fresh and full of flavor after picking
• Guide to fruit and vegetables, and sources for vegetable seeds as well as seedlings for fruits and vegetables

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With a catalog of 150 different culinary herbs and their varieties, more than 30 recipes, step-by-step photographs on how to plant, nurture, harvest and store, and flavor charts that list the best herbs to partner with popular ingredients, The Cook's Herb Garden shows you how to grow your own supply of herbs whether on a window ledge, in pots, on the patio, or in a vegetable garden.

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The Herb Companion Guide to Healing Herbs is packed with valuable and illuminating information on more than 136 favorite herbs for growing, cooking and healing.

A 100-page guide is filled with articles on herbs that help you save money and help you stay healthy throughout the year. Articles cover everything from skin-soothing herbs to herbs that help with cold and flu.

Other articles include:

• Don't Break the Bank: Discover 15 herbs that will save you money on medical bills
• Beat Winter Colds: Treat and prevent winter colds with natural remedies
• Lower Your Blood Pressure: Help correct hypertension with four effective herbs
• Soothe Psoriasis: Control this skin condition with natural remedies

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As charming and elegant as the 17th-century original, this groundbreaking herbal guide combines Nicholas Culpeper’s fascinating text with up-to-date information and modern full-color illustrations. Culpeper — a famed astrologer, physician and author — covered almost 400 herbs and plants from Aconite and Adder’s Tongue to Yew and Yucca. For each entry, he gave both the Latin and common names, details on where to find it, its flowering time, astrology and medicinal virtues. Following the alphabetical list of herbs comes the inventory of illnesses and their cures, as it appeared in 1649. Many of these plants still occupy a prominent position in the dispensaries of today’s herbalists, so in addition to Culpeper’s entertaining and often caustic comments and descriptions, there are notes on contemporary usage by an established practitioner.

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The Complete Herb Book is a comprehensive A-Z guide to the fascinating world of herbs, providing practical information on each herb's organic growing requirements, use, mythical properties and historical background. This new edition is updated and revised to include complete entries for 40 additional herbs.

The directory features a full double-page spread for each herb, with details that include:

• Natural habitat
• Species and related plants
• Soil properties
• Watering requirements
• Weather protection
• Container growing
• Strategies to eliminate pests
• Best harvesting times
• Culinary, medicinal, cosmetic and other uses
• Recipes

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Every Witch needs a little corner of the world to tend. Deepen your connection to the earth and watch your magical skills blossom. Author Ellen Dugan presents a variety of ways to honor and work with the plant kingdom in this charming hands-on guide to green magick and spirituality. Designed to enhance any tradition or style of the Craft, this handy herbal reference provides the physical description, folklore, magickal qualities, and spellwork correspondences for a wealth of flowers, trees and herbs, and features 47 botanical drawings.

About the author
Ellen Dugan, the "Garden Witch," is an award-winning author, psychic-clairvoyant and regular contributor to Llewellyn's almanacs, datebooks and calendars. A practicing Witch for more than 25 years, she is also a certified Master Gardener.

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Discover the wonderful diversity of herbs in this complete guide for the organic grower. Easy to grow and hassle-free, herbs are often tough and resilient to pests and diseases. Be amazed at the range of plants to discover and learn about their unique flavors, perfumes and uses.

From sowing seeds to controlling pests, every subject an organic gardener needs to know about is covered in this A-Z directory of herbs. Along with tested advice on growing these attractive, rewarding, hardy and resilient plants without chemicals, there is detailed information on culinary, medicinal and cosmetic uses for each herb. Practical tips on planning the garden and propagating, planting, harvesting, drying and storing the herbs is included, along with a handy calendar.

About the author:
Graham Clarke has been a gardening writer and journalist for more than 25 years. He has written a dozen books and countless articles for many of the major United Kingdom gardening magazines. He lives in Dorset, on England's south coast, with his wife and two daughters.

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This is the definitive guide to planting, growing, harvesting and using 101 popular herbs. A step-by-step primer for gardeners of every level, it includes in-depth information on seed selection; maintenance and care; drying; and uses in the kitchen, home pharmacy, crafting and body care. With renowned herbalist Tammi Hartung as a guide, readers will discover that growing their own herbs is one of the easiest ways possible to bring more beauty, flavor and health to everyday life. Sensational four-color photographs by photographer Saxon Holt bring the information to life.

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With their heady perfume and stunning visual appeal, lavenders have been prized by gardeners since ancient times. Lavender is a truly comprehensive study that enables the reader to research and identify more than 200 lavender species and varieties. With chapters on cultivation, propagation, botanical history, pests and diseases, this book is as practical as it is authoritative.

More than 200 photos document recent advances in color variation that have resulted from intense breeding; plants now available range from deep purple and lilac to white, cream, pink and red-violet. With so many hardy and dependable plants to choose from, no lavender enthusiast will want to be without this indispensable book.