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Culinary herbs for short-season gardeners / Ernest Small, Grace Deutsch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub., 2002.Edition: Mountain Press edDescription: x, 182 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0878424539 (alk. paper)
  • 9780878424535 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB351.H5 S63 2002
Contents:
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.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves SB351.H5 S62 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800036600
Total holds: 0

Originally published: Toronto : Ismant Peony Press, c2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-177) and index.

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.

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.

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