Home Herb Garden

Infusing your craft with plants and herbs is a powerful way to connect to Mother Earth. This green witchcraft encyclopedia explores the most essential magical plants, offering you a complete resource for safely growing, foraging, harvesting, and using everything from aloe to valerian. Discover greater harmony with nature as you harness the natural energy of plants to create healing and balance in your life.

From Julia Winchester, the author of Microgreens: a Beginner's Guide to the Benefits of Cultivation and Consumption: Wouldn't it be great if you could reach over to your windowsill, grab some freshly grown herbs, toss them into a pan to flavor your dish with flare and then to serve them to your guests? Sure, you would have incredible flavor and all kinds of healthy nutrients, but you would look like a superstar chef! Who doesn't want that? Growing herbs at home, whether on a patio, windowsill, or even the balcony of your apartment is a real option. In fact, it is one of the best ways for ...

What’s more satisfying than brewing the perfect cup of tea? Brewing it from tea you grew yourself! Create your own tea garden with help from this beginner’s guide. It walks you through every step of the process, from planning your garden plot to preparing delicious tea blends.

It is general knowledge that echinacea and gingko biloba are effective herbal medicines for a variety of common diseases, including memory loss and colds. However, many people fail to fully utilize herbal remedies as treatments or preventatives for a wide range of conditions such as heart disease, arthritis, and insomnia. The book is full of information about herbs, natural health, and nutrition.

One fateful day in 1996, after discovering that five freight cars' worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard vows to save his family's farm. What ensues-through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters-is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard's biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and rejects organic foods for sugary mainstream fare.

The fresh, pungent scent of rosemary, the rich, warm flavor of basil, the calming, soft fragrance of lavender... there is nothing like growing your very own herbs to make a house feel like a home. Whether you're throwing a fabulous dinner party or preparing a beautiful meal for one or two, it will be no trouble at all to snip fresh green parsley for the soup or gorgeous basil leaves for the pizza. Mint lemonade? Got it. Oregano for those bean dishes? Ready when you need it. Rosemary potatoes? Absolutely. When you grow them yourself you know your herbs are fresh and healthy, and you can eat ...

Unlock the secrets to a vibrant and eco-friendly vegetable and herb garden with the power of companion planting! Are you eager to cultivate a garden that thrives organically, without relying on harmful chemicals? Do you want to enhance the health and productivity of your plants while promoting natural pest control? If so, "Companion Gardening: How to let nature nurture your home-grown vegetable garden” is your essential resource! Inside this book, you'll: **Embrace organic gardening** Learn how to nurture a garden that's free from chemicals and pesticides, supporting robust plant growth ...

The country's most sought-after spice expert wrote this gorgeous and authoritative spice guide. This book includes 102 never-before-published recipes for spice blends. Additionally, it contains hundreds of original ideas and suggestions for making use of spices that are currently in availability. In addition, he has been creating mixes that are suited to small batches for renowned chefs all over the world.

Ever dream of stepping outside and picking fresh, homegrown vegetables straight from your garden—without the stress, guesswork, or endless weeding? Whether you're a total beginner or an experienced gardener looking to maximize your harvest, The Ultimate Vegetable Garden is your go-to guide for growing more food with less effort. This isn’t just another gardening book filled with dry facts. It’s a fun, practical, and no-nonsense blueprint that takes you from seed to harvest—without expensive tools, confusing techniques, or hours of backbreaking work.

Unrivaled gardening wisdom from Monty Don, including essential tips, knowledge, and musings from his 50 years of gardening experience. This is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing advice. Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, color, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers, and much more. Hear about the month-by-month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you. Monty's warm voice brings this most intimate book to life - an enriching listen for any gardener.

Do you dream of growing your own fresh, organic vegetables but don’t know where to start? Or are you looking for expert techniques to maximize your harvest while minimizing effort? Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned gardener, The Ultimate Vegetable Gardening Bible is your all-in-one resource to create a thriving, low-maintenance garden and enjoy fresh, homegrown food all year long!

Compared to Charles' other books, this is more about no dig, eliminating weeds, garden layout, compost making, and using compost. There is also a history of no-dig vegetable gardening in the last 100 years. I want listeners to understand the context and the reasons why no dig has not been much valued until recently, and why it is now. This audiobook has 18 sections, covering the key methods and wonderful results of no dig, from starting with weeds to sowing and planting straightaway, and cropping soon after.

Do you like the idea of starting your garden? What if you could be perfectly self-sufficient and take care of all your food needs and requirements? Do you want to create a sustainable backyard homestead but don't know where to start? If yes, this is the perfect book for you! All you need is a backyard, and you can turn it into a sustainable homestead with a thriving vegetable garden and livestock. You only require an inclination to learn, a can-do attitude, enthusiasm, conscious effort, patience, and plenty of love.

Have you ever wondered how peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash, and corn have ended up on our plates? Well, Adam Alexander has. In The Seed Detective, Adam shares his own stories of seed hunting, with the origin stories behind many of our everyday food heroes. Taking us on a journey that began when we left the life of the hunter-gatherer to become farmers, he tells tales of globalization, political intrigue, colonization, and serendipity—describing how these vegetables and their travels have become embedded in our food cultures.

What the world’s best microgreen growers know, that you don’t...Maybe you’re over 40 years old and starting to become concerned about your health? Maybe you're just intrigued to know what microgreens are, and how fun they could be to grow indoors? Or maybe you’ve attempted to grow microgreens already, but you struggle to cultivate strong, prosperous plants which germinate properly, and grow without getting completely covered in mold. Have no idea where to even begin? Become the microgreen expert in your local area and build a wildly successful green-eco-empire.

If you're ready to throw out the rule book and return as much as you can to the soil, Compost Everything is the book for you. It's time to quit fighting Mother Nature and start working with her to recycle organic matter and create lush and beautiful gardens with some of the most extreme composting techniques known to man!

A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a magazine article, but John McPhee kept encountering so much irresistible information that he wrote a book. It is perhaps the last word on the subject (the first came in 500 BC and is attributed to Confucius). McPhee writes about the botany, history, and industry of oranges, from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida, who may be the last of the individual orange barons.

Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, colour, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers and much more. Hear about the month-by-month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you. Monty's warm voice brings this most intimate book to life - an enriching listen for any gardener.

There’s something about biting into a fresh fruit plucked straight from a tree. That sudden explosion of crisp flavor tingling your tastebuds and making your mouth water for more is quite an experience. Now, imagine if you had grown that very fruit in your backyard.

Transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden by following simple steps achieved in a few hours and with plants in the ground from day one. The crucial factor is understanding that not only is there no need to dig over the soil, but by minimizing intervention you are actively boosting soil productivity. This is the essence of the No Dig system that Charles Dowding has perfected over a lifetime growing vegetables.