Product Description

Using simple organic gardening techniques, anyone can grow a healing garden of more than 20 medicinal herbs like garlic, dill, peppermint, and echinacea. Readers will also find recipes, tips for using medicinal herbs, and plans for gardens customized for specific health requirements.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #330899 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Nancy Clifton, Horticultural Specialist, Plant Information, The School of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Current Books on Gardening & Botany, 12/7/99
"Herbal Remedy Gardens is an easy-to-use and interesting guide to herbal gardening. It contains a little bit of everything you need to know to start using herbs as well as instructions on how to grow them Herbal Remedy Gardens is a handy guide loaded with facts for the beginner as well for advanced herbalists. The container gardens will give everyone ideas for herbs in pots. Portions of the book on history and uses of herbal remedies make it interesting to all readers."

Ingram
Learn how to cultivate and maintain gardens or containers with such herbs as parsley, thyme, rosemary, garlic, valerian, chamomile, and echinacea. Two-color illustrations.

From the Back Cover
Enhance your health naturally with herbs from your own garden. Even if you've never gardened before, you can care for yourself and your family using time-tested herbal remedies harvested from your own medicinal herb garden. Master Gardener Dorie Byers offers simple growing instructions for more than 20 versatile medicinal herbs such as garlic, chamomile, and echinacea. You'll also find recipes and tips for using the herbs for first-aid and preventive health care. Customize a garden to suit your space and your specific health needs with more than 35 illustrated plans for easy-to-maintain container and backyard gardens including: -- Cold and Flu Garden -- Decongestant Garden -- Headache Relief Garden -- Healthy Heart Garden -- Woman's Care Garden -- Rejuvenation Garden

Customer Reviews

well organized and practical
This practical guide to growing healthful herbs includes 20 specific plans for such things as cold and flu gardens, healthy heart, windowsill medicine cabinet, skin care, first aid, hair care, relaxation garden, and lots more. Recipes - culinary as well as medicinal - are included with each garden type.

The book begins with an overview of medicinal herbs, with their uses, cautions, and raising and harvesting advice. The "at a glance" box directs the reader to the gardens (always multiple) the plant is used in, so you can see what complements it and how the plant is used.

Tables include specific plant care and propagation advice and uses in the garden for attracting and repelling bugs. Byers includes the basics on getting started, garden maintenance and harvesting, but the heart of this book is practical herb use. Byers even concludes with an appreciative and practical chapter on the wild herbs, otherwise known as weeds.

Wonderful and Helpful
I own this, though I havn't actually used it yet.
It is very well organzied and includes lots of information about many herbs and where they grow. It also includes information about how to make different teas, salves, ointments etc.
The only thing I didn't like about it was the garden section seemed wasted. The recipies in the section seem wonderful, but I don't think it was really necessary for the author to draw out garden plans for "tummy ache help" and "healthy heart garden" among others.

Great Book!
This book is everything I hoped it would be. I love the breakdown and categorizing in this book. It makes herbal gardening easy for even us beginners. An absolutely GREAT book!