This is a herb book with a difference. It shows you how to grow and use your own fresh, home-grown, kitchen herbs throughout the gardening year. In a really user-friendly format, it follows the changing seasons to provide guidance, inspiration and practical advice on cultivating a kitchen herb garden, in whatever space you have available. * Includes detailed information on how to plan, plant, grow and maintain your herbs so that your herb garden is always productive. * Information on their traditional use is accompanied by advice on cooking them and on their health benefits. * Included in each of the seasonal chapters is a featured Herb of the Month, which includes extended and fascinating information - and some delicious recipes. * Offers you an A-Z Gazetteer of the most popular herbs to use in the kitchen so you can decide which ones to buy as well as which ones to grow.
Author Maureen Little is a gardener, herb enthusiast and beekeeper. She is a member of the Herb Society, has written for the Society's Journal, and has spoken at a number of Society events.
Title: The Kitchen Herb Garden: A Seasonal Guide to Growing, Cooking and Using Culinary Herbs
Author: Maureen Little
ISBN: 9781905862894
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Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Date: 2012-09-03
Number of Pages: 208
Weight: 0.6216 kg
'This book explains how to grow and use the multi-taskers of the garden: herbs.' Garden News 'It's easy to grow herbs such as parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme and, in The Kitchen Herb Garden, horticulturalist and bee keeper Maureen Little shows us how. There are some great recipes too...' -Tribune Magazine 'With the seed-catalogue season upon us, this book is an ideal one to help you decide what to order. Maureen Little's style is charming and conversational.' Gardens Illustrated