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    Backyard Herb Gardening: How To Grow Herbs From Your Backyard and Use It For Everyday Life
    Backyard Herb Gardening: How To Grow Herbs From Your Backyard and Use It For Everyday Life
    Backyard Herb Gardening: How To Grow Herbs From Your Backyard and Use It For Everyday Life
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    Backyard Herb Gardening: How To Grow Herbs From Your Backyard and Use It For Everyday Life

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    Herbs are some of the most versatile plants in the world. They grow in the worst type of soil, are drought tolerant and require very little maintenance. Use them to flavor all kinds of foods, make skin and hair care products of your own, enhance your vegetable garden, cure common ailments, clean your home and make it smell wonderful. It sounds almost too good to be true, but this book will give you the inside story on how to use these wonderful plants and save money along with keeping harmful chemicals away from your home, children, pets and yourself.

    HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on unique topics by everyday experts.

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    PublisherHowExpert
    Release dateJan 16, 2019
    ISBN9781949531855
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      Backyard Herb Gardening - HowExpert

      Backyard Herb Gardening

      How To Grow Herbs From Your Backyard and Use It For Everyday Life

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      Table of Contents

      Recommended Resources

      INTRODUCTION

      Cooking With Herbs

      Remedies Using Herbs

      Cleaning with Herbs

      Disease and Insect Protectors for the Garden

      Cosmetic Uses

      Use Herbs for Fragrance

      STEP 1: Getting the Garden Ready to Plant

      Sun/Shade

      Soil

      Soil Texture

      Water Access

      Digging In

      STEP 2: LEARNING METHODS OF PROPAGATION

      Seed

      Germination

      Planting Seed Indoors or Outdoors

      Heat

      Sun

      Ground Planting

      Seed Depth

      Moisture

      Thinning Seedlings

      STEM CUTTINGS

      ROOT CUTTINGS

      LAYERING

      DIVISION

      STEP 3: PLANTING HERBS

      PLANTING OUTSIDE

      Hardening Off

      Types of Outdoor Herb Gardens

      Kitchen Garden

      Fragrance Garden

      Tea Garden

      Remedy Garden

      Invasive Herb Control

      Pot Culture

      Soil for Pots

      Fertilization

      GROWING HERBS INDOORS

      Containers and Soil

      Sun and Water

      STEP 4: Maintaining Herbs Throughout the Growing Season and Beyond

      Weeds

      Watering

      Sick Plants

      Pruning

      Pinching Back

      Remove Seed Heads

      Divide Plants

      Relocate Plants

      Spring Care

      Winter Care

      STEP 5: Harvesting and Storage of Herbs

      Rules of Harvesting

      Preserving Herbs

      Drying Herbs

      Freezing Herbs

      Best Storage Methods

      STEP 6: WAYS TO USE HERBS

      Cooking with Herbs

      Healing and Health Prevention

      Preparing Herbs to Be Used As Remedies

      INFUSION

      COLD INFUSION

      DECOCTION

      TINCTURE

      SYRUP

      POULTICE

      SALVE

      HERBAL REMEDIES

      HERBAL FIRST AID

      HOUSEHOLD USES

      WINDOW CLEANER

      TOILET BOWL CLEANER

      FURNITURE POLISH

      CARPET CLEANER

      DISINFECTENT SPRAY

      SINK SCRUB

      SCOUR POWDER

      SHOWER/TUB MILDREW DETERRENT

      VINEGAR AND HERB CLEANING SOLUTION

      USING HERBS TO MAINTAIN THE GARDEN

      HERBAL COSMETIC APPLICATIONS

      TONERS

      FACIAL STEAMS

      Basil Toner

      Calendula Toner

      Chamomile Toner

      Lavender Toner

      Lemon Balm Toner

      Peppermint Toner

      Rosemary Toner

      Sage Toner

      Thyme Toner

      FACE MASKS

      Cucumber Sage Mask

      Chamomile Oatmeal Mask

      HAIR

      Herbal Shampoo

      Hair Rinse

      NAIL TREATMENT

      AROMATHERAPY

      Make a Reed Diffuser

      Scented Spray

      Potpourri

      Simmering Potpourri

      Dry Potpourri

      CITRUS BAY POTPOURRI

      MINTY FRESH POTPOURRI

      ROSEMARY POTPOURRI (Good for in the kitchen)

      HERB GARDEN POTPOURRI

      VICTORIAN ROSE AND LAVENDER POTPOURRI

      SLEEP WELL POTPOURRI

      STEP 7: CHOOSING THE RIGHT HERBS FOR YOU

      BASIL

      CALENDULA

      CATNIP

      CHAMOMILE

      CHIVES

      DILL

      ECHINACEA/CONEFLOWER

      FEVERFEW

      FENNEL

      GARLIC

      HYSSOP

      HOREHOUND

      LAVENDER

      LEMON BALM

      MARJORAM

      MINT

      PARSLEY

      OREGANO

      ROSEMARY

      SAGE

      TARRAGON

      THYME

      CONCLUSION

      About the Expert

      Recommended Resources

      INTRODUCTION

      Herbs are extremely versatile. Cook delicious meals, sides and desserts with them. Help cure simple illnesses or prevent serious problems until you can get professional help. Clean and freshen your home and the things in your home with them. Protect other plants growing in your yard or in the house with herbs. Use herbs in facials, body cleansers and other cosmetic applications. Finally, use herbs to scent the house and bring about a sense of well-being.

      Having an herb garden in your backyard is probably one of the most valuable things you can do. Most herbs grow in containers, so if you only have a deck or balcony, you can still reap some of the benefits of growing herbs.

      Growing herbs to use in your home isn’t anything new. It is a proven fact that herbs were used during prehistoric times. Wall paintings depicting herbs on the Lascaux Cave in France carbon dates back to 1300 to 2500 BC. Herbs were held in high esteem in ancient Rome and Greece where leaders were crowned with wreaths of dill and bay laurel. The father of medicine, Greek physician Hippocrates, used 400 different herbs for medicinal uses in the fifth century BC and herbal use goes on from the Middle Ages to Ayurvedic practices of India and Chinese medicine to modern times.

      The people of the Middle Ages started to design herb gardens with aesthetics and usefulness in mind. Some herb gardens were informal with a profusion of leaves and blooms while others were stringently manicured and completely symmetrical. Examples of these gardens are the cottage herb garden where plants

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