Product Description

Culinary Herbs for Short-Season Gardeners is a comprehensive, reader friendly guide to cultivating over 50 culinary herbs – including over 100 cultivars – under the less-than-ideal climatic conditions experienced by northern gardeners. Includes descriptions of the herbs, cultivation and harvesting notes, culinary uses, and herbal trivia, plus gardening tips and techniques for cold-climate herb gardeners. Also includes expert advice on the safe medicinal use of culinary herbs. Beautifully illustrated with full-color botanical art and photos.

"To professional herb growers, Dr. Ernie Small is a widely recognized authority. In Culinary Herbs for Short-Season Gardeners, he provides home gardeners with all the information needed to grow culinary herbs successfully in a northern climate. Highly recommended." Conrad Richter, President, Richters Herbs

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #385028 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 181 pages

About the Author
Dr. Ernest Small received a doctorate in plant evolution from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1969, and has since been employed with the Research Branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, where he presently holds the status of Principal Research Scientist. He is the author of over 170 scientific publications on economic plants. His six books, include Culinary Herbs and Vegetables of Canada published by NRC Press, both of which received the Canadian Government's AgCellence Award in 1998. Dr. Small's career has included dozens of appearances as an expert botanical witness in court cases, acting as an adviser to national governments, presenting numerous invited university and professional association lectures, supervising post-graduate students at various universities, and media interviews. He has received several professional honours, including two recent awards from the government of Canada for accomplishments in alfalfa improvement and crop diversification; the G.M. Cooley Prize of the American Association of Plant Taxonomists for work on the marihuana plant; and the George Lawson Medal, the most prestigious award of the Canadian Botanical Association, for lifetime contributions to botany.

Grace Deutsch planted her first herbs, unsuccessfully, over 30 years ago during an Australian drought. When she relocated to Toronto, Canada, she tried herbs again. Lacking short-season gardening experience, she was unprepared for the damage a northern winter can cause. She has since learned about cloches, hardening off seedlings, and the protective qualities of mulch. When not writing travel books and publishing educational resources, she grows herbs on the family's weekend farm in Bruce County, Ontario, not far from the bracing breezes of Lake Huron.

Customer Reviews

From gardening, to garnish, to medicinal usages
The collaborative effort of Ernest Small and Grace Deutsch, Culinary Herbs For Short-season Gardeners is a beautifully and colorfully illustrated instructional and reference guide which is ideal for non-specialist general readers seeking to cultivate and make the most of fresh herbs from their gardens. More than fifty annual and perennial herbs are listed, along with descriptions, cultivation and harvesting notes, medicinal uses, trivia, and a great deal more. From gardening, to garnish, to medicinal usages, Culinary Herbs For Short-season Gardeners is an excellent enhancement to personal and community library gardening reference collections.