num_pages: 392
description: Whether the reader is looking to cultivate herbs for medicinal or culinary use or spice up landscaping with fragrant decoration, Herb Gardening For Dummies is top-notch source of ideas and information. Herb Gardening For Dummies covers everything you need to know for growing beautiful herbs gardens indoors and out. From picking a site to soil requirements to selecting seedlings, you will be rolling up your sleeves in no time. Herb gardening abc's such as mulching, watering, weeding, pruning and pest control are discussed. Zone maps are included so you can select the best herbs for their climate. Also, an encyclopedia of herbs that covers both scientific and common names, description and common applications, as well as interesting facts and lore about various herbs. Herb Gardening For Dummies also gives tips on storing and using herbs for culinary uses and crafts and more than 150 drawings and color photos.
  About the Authors:
The National Gardening Association (Burlington, VT) is the largest member-based, non-profit organization of home gardeners in the U.S. Founded in 1972, NGA is best known for its bi-monthly magazine, National Gardening (250,000; 500,000 readers). They are the featured gardening experts on Housenet-AOL's key home and garden resource. They are also the co-authors of the For Dummies gardening series.Karan Davis Cutler is a former writer/editor for Harrowsmith Country Life and has written nearly 50 feature articles for Horticulture, The American Gardener and Organic Gardening magazines. She has edited four handbooks for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and is the author of a major book on edibles, Burpee-The Complete Vegetable and Herb Gardener ($30, Literary Guild, Rodale Book Clubs) and is currently working on The New England Gardener's Book of Lists. Karan has also been awarded eight Quill &amp; Trowel awards for her writing.Kathleen Fisher has been editor of The American Gardener and has just completed a major book on medicinal herbs, Herbal Remedies. (Rodale) She frequently writes for Physicians Garden, Wild Garden and Organic Gardening magazines.
language: English
title: Herb Gardening For Dummies
publisher: For Dummies