Whether you use herbs for eating or healing, growing your own organic herbs is a nice idea. You can just grow a few herbs to use for throwing in cooking or even grow them to sell at local farmers’ markets. 100 Herbs to Grow is by herb-growing expert Jekka McVicar. Packed with knowledge, it includes herbs that are easy to grow, taste great and have culinary and medicinal properies. The book offers historical knowledge and culinary/medicinal uses.
Learn how to make gardens safe for pets (toxic herbs to avoid include chives and parsley). For indoor herbs (including growing on windowsills), avoid facing foliage to gardens, to help stop birds flying into windows.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets, and talk to your doctor before taking herbs, especially if on medication.
Complete Container Herb Gardening is a book by a certified horticulturalist on how to grow edible plants with ease on patios, urban rooftops, balconies and more. Learn which herbs grow best in pots and how to select containers and tend your herb garden. Includes a dozen ‘recipes’ to mix and match.
My Tiny Kitchen Garden offers tips to grow 20 plants in a microgarden including fresh herbs for cooking, to save money on food bills. Find plant profiles to help you choose what to grow, and advice on growing food from scraps.
The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer is a book from experienced growers who show what they have learned over 25 years of growing herbs. It offers tips on size and scale, profit, choosing herbs, good soil and natural weeding.
The Complete Language of Herbs is a beautifully illustrated compendium of over 500 herbs and spices, in a pocket edition for easy references. Along with visual depiction, each entry includes scientific and common names, historic meanings and powers, even some herb poetry! In the Victorian era, floriographies (dictionaries of flower meanings) were an amusing pastime and a way to subtly communicate unspoken emotions. S Theresa Dietz has scoured historic sources to find the powers of hundreds of common and forgotten herbs and spices from around the world. The book includes 2 indexes, and is a must-have for gardeners, chefs and foodies. The author is a writer and artist who lives in the Enchanted Mountains of western New York State, USA.
