Grow Your Own Herbs

GROW YOUR OWN HERBS

The 40 Best Culinary Varieties for Home Gardens

Taste the Homegrown Difference

For the gardener who cooks or the cook who loves fresh flavors, this easy-to-follow guide offers growing information, harvesting tips, and tasting notes for the forty best edible herbs. You'll also learn how to preserve and store your harvest, and simple recipes for pastes, syrups, and butters make it easy to use herbs year-round. 

• Make your own signature pesto with windowsill basil
• Add nasturtium blooms to perk up salad greens
• Serve mojitos with fresh-clipped mint from your garden
• Cultivate and dry chamomile for a calming tea

Susan Belsinger is a teacher, author, photographer and flavor artist who delights in the blending of harmonious foods, herbs, and spices. Arthur O. Tucker was a botanist who researched, wrote, and taught about herbs for more than fifty years. 

201 pages