Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts: Includes 51 Culinary Herbs & Spices, 25 Recipes, and 18 Crafts

Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts provides everything you need to know to start your own herb garden today. From soil preparation, lighting, how often to water, pests and disease prevention, important things to know when planting indoors verses outdoors, expert gardener and author Kim Roman shares invaluable tips to producing high yield quality herbs. Kim also shares quick reference charts and plant profiles for 36 of today's most popular herbs, in addition to a few of her favorite recipes where herbs are the star ingredient including marinades, salad vinaigrettes, infused oils, delicious cocktails or mocktails, herbed and plain focaccia bread, teas and more! You can enhance your crafting projects by adding herbs as well. Herbs include echinacea, St. John's Wort, turmeric, elderberry, ginger, chamomile, Tulsi, anise hyssop and so much more!
Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts provides everything you need to know to start your own herb garden today. From soil preparation, lighting, how often to water, pests and disease prevention, important things to know when planting indoors verses outdoors, expert gardener and author Kim Roman shares invaluable tips to producing high yield quality herbs. Kim also shares quick reference charts and plant profiles for 36 of today's most popular herbs, in addition to a few her favorite recipes where herbs are the star ingredient.
Deck Designs, 3rd Edition shows readers the latest design trends and materials in deck building. Following the format of the best-selling Deck Designs, the all-new edition features the work of four new deck designers whose work represents four different regions of the country. Created for both the do-it-yourselfer and the those who wish to work with a professional to achieve the ideal deck, Deck Designs, 3rd Edition is divided into two main sections. The first provides basic design instruction on building a deck, including information on the new generation of deck materials, dealing with problem locations, creating shade and wind screens, and adding distinctive details. The second part of the book takes an in-depth look at the work of four of the country's most successful deck builders. Through drawings and photos of actual custom deck projects readers will obtain first-hand information on what went into these truly unique projects.