Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts - by Kim Roman (Paperback)

About the Book

Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts provides everything you need to know to start your own herb garden today. From soil preparation, lighting, how often to water, pests and disease prevention, important things to know when planting indoors verses outdoors, expert gardener and author Kim Roman shares invaluable tips to producing high yield quality herbs. Kim also shares quick reference charts and plant profiles for 36 of today's most popular herbs, in addition to a few her favorite recipes where herbs are the star ingredient.

Book Synopsis

Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts provides everything you need to know to start your own herb garden today. From soil preparation, lighting, how often to water, pests and disease prevention, important things to know when planting indoors verses outdoors, expert gardener and author Kim Roman shares invaluable tips to producing high yield quality herbs. Kim also shares quick reference charts and plant profiles for 36 of today's most popular herbs, in addition to a few of her favorite recipes where herbs are the star ingredient including marinades, salad vinaigrettes, infused oils, delicious cocktails or mocktails, herbed and plain focaccia bread, teas and more! You can enhance your crafting projects by adding herbs as well. Herbs include echinacea, St. John's Wort, turmeric, elderberry, ginger, chamomile, Tulsi, anise hyssop and so much more!

Review Quotes

A treasure trove of inspirational and practical information for success when growing herbs. - David Squire, author of A Guide to Wild Food Foraging and many more gardening books

About the Author

Kim Roman is a garden speaker, teacher, writer, and owner of Square Foot Gardening 4 U where she offers online classes about small-space, no-dig vegetable gardening methods. In addition to hosting online workshops and seminars, she also teaches in-person classes at schools, churches, corporations, community colleges, and other venues. Kim's multi-media appearances and features include DIY Network, iHeartRadio, The Baltimore Sun, Mother Earth News, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Homestead Gardens, Grit GRIT Magazine, and many others. To learn more about Kim and her work, visit www.sfg4u.com, or find her on Facebook (@SquareFootGardening4U and @UltimateGuide) and Instagram (@square_foot_gardening_4_u and @UltimateGuideToIndoorGardening).