Nothing tastes better than herbs fresh from the garden. Discover how easy and rewarding it is to grow your own! Simple instructions, tempting dishes, and beautiful full-color photographs will inspire you to grow, harvest, preserve, and cook with 26 of the most popular kitchen herbs, including basil, chives, cilantro, dill, fennel, garlic, lavender, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, and tarragon. Your pantry will soon be filled with seasoned salts, Provençal vinegar, and caraway cookies.
A former horticulturalist for White Flower Farm, Charles W.G. Smith has also been an instructor of vocational agriculture. He has written about gardening and environmental issues for more than a decade. He is the author ofThe Beginner's Guide to Edible Herbs, The Weather-Resilient Garden,andRaptor!
Saxon Holt is a photojournalist who has spent more than 40 years exploring Kingdom Plantae and the fundamental importance of plants to the health of the planet. A lifelong gardener, he abandoned commercial photography when he discovered garden publishers and could no longer stay in a studio. His work has been featured in diverse publications, fromArchitectural DigestandPacific Horticulturemagazine, toSmithsonianandMoneymagazines.
Edward C. Smith is the best-selling author ofThe Vegetable Gardener's BibleandThe Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible.For more than 30 years he and his wife, Sylvia, have lived off the grid in Vermont, in a house they built on land they cleared by hand. Together, the grow more than 100 varieties of vegetables, fruits, and herbs in their 2,000 square feet of gardens and containers.
Introduction
Anise Hyssop
Basil
Bay Laurel
Bee Balm
Borage
Calendula
Caraway
Catnip
Chives
Cilantro & Coriander
Dill
Fennel
Garlic
Hyssop
Lavender
Lemon Balm
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