Culinary herbs for short-season gardeners

Small, Ernest 1940- (Author). Deutsch, Grace. (Added Author).

Summary: Learn how to make the most of a short growing season including: picking the best location for planting, providing wind protection and cold air drainage, building raised beds, using season extenders, seeding indoors and outdoors, hardening off and transplanting, and mulching.

Record details

ISBN: 9780152049683
ISBN: 0152049681
ISBN: 9780878424535 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0878424539 (pbk.)
Physical Description: x, 182 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
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Edition: Mountain Press ed.
Publisher: Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub., 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: Toronto : Ismant Peony Press, c2001.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-177) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: How to use this book -- Interpreting a plant hardiness zone map: Making the most of the short growing season: Pick the best location for light and warmth -- Full sun versus full sun/partial shade -- Provide wind protection and cold air drainage -- Build raised beds for warmth and drainage -- Choose the right species -- Understanding soil pH levels -- Container herbs -- Start seedlings indoors -- Use season extenders -- Greenhouses -- Cold frames -- Hot beds -- Floating row covers, cloches, and water jackets -- Warm the soil with plastic film -- Growing and caring for your herbs: Seeding indoors -- Last spring frost date -- Seeding containers -- Soil for your seeds and seedlings -- Sowing your seeds -- Lighting needs -- Watering and thinning -- Transplanting indoors -- Hardening off -- Transplanting outdoors -- Seeding outdoors -- Preparing for winter -- First fall frost date -- Providing frost protection -- Mulching and wrapping perennials for winter survival -- Culinary herb compendium: Agrimony -- Angelica -- Balm, lemon -- Basil, sweet -- Bergamot -- Borage -- Caraway -- Catnip -- Chamomile, German and Roman -- Chervil -- Chives and garlic chives -- Cicely, sweet -- Coriander -- Cress, garden and upland -- Dill -- Fennel -- Fenugreek -- Garlic -- Geraniums, scented -- Hop -- Horseradish -- Hyssop -- Hyssop, anise -- Juniper -- Lavender, English -- Lovage -- Marigold, pot -- Marjoram, sweet -- Mints -- Potpourri of mint-like herbs -- Calamint, large-flowered -- Calamint, lesser -- Korean mint -- Mexican mint marigold -- Mountain mint -- Mustard, brown and white -- Nasturtium and dwarf nasturtium -- Oregano -- Savory, winter -- Sorrel, garden and French -- Tarragon, French -- Thyme, garden -- Warm-season container herbs to overwinter indoors -- Bay laurel -- Ginger -- Lemon grass -- Lemon verbena -- Myrtle.