Your Indoor Herb Garden: Growing and Harvesting Herbs at Home

by D.J. Herda

Overview

The complete how-to guide for growing herbs indoors for health, vitality, and culinary zest.

Learn how to grow herbs for health, for taste, and for life with Your Indoor Herb Garden, a comprehensive guide to growing herbs indoors. Featuring all the tips and guidance you’ll need to grow and harvest organic culinary and medicinal herbs right in your own home. Coverage includes:

• Techniques for successfully growing herbs indoors
• Equipment, soil types, and feeding
• Why indoor herb gardens are an important part of life, from cooking to healing ·Herbal medicine
• Herbal history and lore
• An annotated glossary of herbs, including their common uses, growing requirements, cautions, and more.

Growing herbs indoors leads the list of the healthiest and most useful indoor activities we can do. Herbs can clean the air of toxins, provide oxygen and humidity, and help vanquish our psychoses. And they’re tasty!

This is the ideal practical guide for gardeners and cooks with an interest in healthy living and fresh flavors looking to create their own indoor herb garden anywhere.

Praise for Your Indoor Herb Garden

“As a behavioral science expert, I've spent 30 years advising and altering people's behavior. Helping big brands make their brands all that more appealing by tapping into the psychology of consumers. Your Indoor Herb Garden has given me a complete new set of tools with which to alter the moods of consumers, and myself. Anyone interested in human health and wellbeing should get hold of this book immediately. It's frankly brilliant. And there was me thinking herbs were just . . . herbs.” —Phillip Adcock commercial psychologist, author, Master Your Brain

“A fascinating, beautifully-illustrated guide to growing and using herbs to enhance your life, from ancient supernatural rituals to present-day cooking and medicinal purposes.” —Janet Kay author, The Sisters

“[A] beautiful and easy-to-understand book. From the history of herbs to their medicinal value and the “ins and outs” of using them. Great stuff. Dig in!” —Dr. Al Danenberg periodontist, certified functional medicine practitioner, certified primal health coach

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865719330
Publisher:	New Society Publishers
Publication date:	05/05/2020
Series:	Homegrown City Life , #9
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

D.J. Herda is a professional author, gourmet chef, and master indoor/outdoor gardener. He is a former Challenger Space Center project creator/coordinator, syndicated newspaper and magazine garden writer and columnist, and test grower for Jackson & Perkins and the Rodale Institute, along with other recognized innovators in gardening plants and practices. He has written and published more than 80 books and thousands of short pieces. As an avid chef, D.J. has been cooking with dried and fresh herbs for more than 50 years and has been growing herbs indoors in pots for nearly as long. He lives and works in the Rocky Mountains of the southwestern United States. www.djherda.org

Table of Contents

1. Welcome to My World
An introduction explaining why herbs are an essential part of my life—and why they should be in yours, as well.

2 Herbal Life and Lore
From 5000 BC to the present— a fascinating historical look into the background of herbs.

3 From Magic to Medicine
Herbal medicine, how it began, and where it is in modern society.

4 Growing and Harvesting Herbs Indoors
A general introduction into how-to do it, equipment required, best soil types, feeding, etc.

5 Using Herbs at Home
Employing the use of herbs in cooking, bouquet garni, fines herbes, herb vinegar, drying, health foods, etc.

6 An Annotated Glossary of Herbs
Most important herbs, historical references, most common uses, growing tips, cautions, and other useful information.

Endnotes
About the Author
About the Publisher

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This was a fantastic read! From the very first chapter – Welcome to My World – I was intrigued and drawn to a subject that I'd mistakenly taken for granted all my life. D. J. gives herbs their rightful place center stage, clearly explaining their health and wellness benefits. Once I had learned why to grow herbs, D. J. then took me through a step by step guide on how to grow and use them. As a behavioral science expert, I've spent 30 years advising and altering people's behavior. Helping big brands make their brands all that more appealing by tapping into the psychology of consumers. Your Indoor Herb Garden has given me a complete new set of tools with which to alter the moods of consumers, and myself. Anyone interested in human health and wellbeing should get hold of this book immediately. It's frankly brilliant. And there was me thinking herbs were just . . . herbs."
—Phillip Adcock commercial psychologist, author, Master Your Brain

"A fascinating, beautifully-illustrated guide to growing and using herbs to enhance your life, from ancient supernatural rituals to present-day cooking and medicinal purposes."
— Janet Kay author, The Sisters

"I know the importance of good health. I have been trained in the healthcare industry, and I am challenged with an incurable bone marrow cancer that I am pursuing with unconventional protocols. I have refused chemotherapy and have outlived my original prognosis by nearly two years, so I know the importance of herbs for health and cooking. What a treasure trove D. J. Herda has put together in this beautiful and easy-to- understand book. From the history of herbs to their medicinal value and the "ins and outs" of using them. Great stuff. Dig in!"
— Dr. Al Danenberg periodontist, certified functional medicine practitioner, certified primal health coach

"A great book! D.J. Herda's Your Indoor Herb Garden is a fun read that's both inspiring and educational. I never considered an indoor herb garden before, but it makes sense physically, emotionally, and spiritually. His book is a welcome resource and a captivating read that had me from the start: "Herbs make great indoor additions to the human domicile." And when I say inspiring, I mean it. As soon as I finished the book, I drove straight to the nursery and bought a batch of seeds and had to send D.J. the photos to prove it! So excited to start my indoor garden!"
— Sheryle Bauer indoor gardener, author, The Devil in the Deal