[.ca] Herbs: The Complete Gardener's Guide (ISBN 1552096246)

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Herbs: The Complete Gardener's Guide is not just for gardeners. This book will appeal to many readers who use herbs in the intertwining pastimes of cooking, brewing, folk medicine, and home-based crafts. Author Patrick Lima is a lively writer, and his passion for the simple pleasures associated with growing herbs is evident on every page. He describes picking fresh leaves for the kitchen, making a pot of fragrant tea, travelling down memory lane on a whiff of costmary or rue, and tousling the lavender in order to breathe in its calming scent. Herbs is less a quick reference than an excuse to linger over a cup of mint tea while savouring tales of tending herbs at Larkwhistle--the author's rural western Ontario garden--along with anecdotes about his grandmother, neighbours, and friends. "In the fall, we often hang herb bundles from a dowel suspended above the woodstove, where the rising heat crisps them perfectly in three days. A neighbour hangs herbs from the rafters of her unfinished attic. A barn, garden, shed or shady screened porch is also a good drying space." The photographs by Turid Forsyth are superb, and recipes for simple dishes, teas, and potpourris mean the herbal harvest need never go unused. --Carolyn Leitch

Beautiful & inspiring:
"I want to plant a herb garden!" That's how I felt after reading this book! I learnt that herbs are beautiful, useful & so colorful, yet they are easy to grow. The book shows many pictures so you know how the herbs look & how to arrange them. It also introduces other herbs that you may have forgotten about. The book chapters make it easy & helpful to look through, chapters such as: herbs that seed, salads, tea, silver colored herbs, flowering, scented etc. At the end there are tips on planting, freezing & drying. Also a few herb recipes that look delicious, but I haven't tried them yet. All in all a beautiful book to look at