Harvest: Unexpected Projects Using 47 Extraordinary Garden Plants

A full-color photographed guide to growing, harvesting and utilizing 47 garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements and beauty products reveals the practical and natural applications of common garden favorites.
Offers a seasonal guide to growing, harvesting, and using garden plants in a variety of craft projects and recipes, including wreaths, flower arrangements, dyes, herbal teas, salads, medicines, and beauty products.
Harvest is a beautifully photographed guide to growing, harvesting, and utilizing 47unexpected garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floralarrangements, beverages, cocktails, beauty products, and more.Every garden--not just vegetable plots--can produce a bountiful harvest! Thispractical, inspirational, and seasonal guide will help make any garden moreproductive and enjoyable with a variety of projects using unexpected and oftencommon garden plants, some of which may already be growing in the backyard.Discover the surprising usefulness of petals and leaves, roots, seeds, and fruit:turn tumeric root into a natural dye and calendula into medicinal oil. Make lilacsinto a refreshing spring cocktail and turn apricots into a facial mask. Crabapplebranches can be used to create stunning floral arrangements, oregano flowers toinfuse vinegar, and edible chrysanthemum to liven up a salad. With theremarkable, multi-purpose plants in Harvest, there is always something forgardeners to harvest from one growing season to the next.