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The colour coded sections help you easily navigate through the world of herbs and treat more than 125 conditions from pulled muscles and bruises to hangovers and motion sickness! Melanie includes photographs and simple explanations of how and why to use...

Conventional wheatgrass, indoor vs. This up-to-date book explains the benefits of organic vs. It includes easy-to-make recipes that are nourishing and cancer fighting, help maintain a youthful and glowing complexion and assist in weight management - all...

More than 18,000 drug-herb-vitamin interactions are covered. This and other questions are answered by researchers and doctors from . Very easy-to-use reference organized by drug, combinations, and herbs, with details on adverse interactions, side effects,...

As Jim Long shows in this wonderful little book, crackers are easier than baking cookies in many cases, and making your own is much better than anything you can buy. And using herbs from your garden you can create truly special party snacks such as Basil...

Whether you are a home hops aficionado growing for personal use or you want to get into the business, this book will get your project up and running. Everything from planning and planting to harvesting and processing is in this book, with excellent photos...

Juice or freshly crushed leaves are effective for the treatment of poison ivy. Often grows in the same area as poison ivy, but it's handy to grow a patch of jewelweed just to be sure! Prefers moist, shady locations with rich soil.

Seed requires light and may take several weeks to germinate. (Wormseed; Mexican tea) A rising culinary star! Essential in traditional Mexican and South American cooking, especially bean dishes and soups, and in contemporary Latino fusion fare.

From there it covers all aspects of growing from garden design and preparation, seeding and planting, to diseases and pests, and even how to breed new varieties if you are so inclined.

Herbs with edible flowers to add to salads, omelettes, desserts, and drinks. Borage, Calendula, Heartsease, Nasturtium, Citrus Marigold. Feast for the eyes -- pleasing to the palate.

Fresh wheatgrass juice is believed to replenish the body starved of nutrients by years of poor diet and helps to restore the body's ability to fight diseases, especially cancer. With our seeds, growing and making your own fresh wheatgrass juice at home...

Animal studies suggest it strengthens endurance. Rhizomes are used to treat diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite and vomiting related to deficiencies of spleen or stomach. Purple flowers; grows up to 60cm/2 ft high.

This pocketbook describes each body system and suggests helpful foods and recipes to address specific ailments from digestive problems to joint pain. David will show you how to integrate medicinal herbs into your culinary kitchen through a tasty variety...

Strong lemon scent. Similar to wild thyme -- aggressive creeper, up to 20cm/8in thick.

Easy to use: chopped roots are soaked in water and stirred to a lather. Spectacular towering spikes of creamy white flowers. Roots contain 2% saponin, a soapy substance valuable in shampoos; leaves a fine sheen to hair.

Sweet, thick walled fruits add splash of colour to salads, vegetable trays, and stir fries. Old fashioned variety that matures to a golden-yellow at maturity. Resistant to tobacco mosaic virus, a common disease in peppers.

Dusty miller is planted for its elegant lacy silver foliage, often used to create contrast and pattern in formal knot gardens and container plantings. It is somewhat shade tolerant, but needs sun to bring out its best colour.

Slow to burst, forms a tight, dense head with small core. Good mid season variety with solid deep red head weighing about 2kg/5lb. Crisp and tender, adds colour to salads and fine flavour to cooked dishes.

Dried milky juice, called lactucarium or lettuce opium, was once used to induce sleep and to treat nervous disorders.

Used throughout Africa for fevers including malaria. Similar to East Indian basil (#1282), but scent and flavour is closer to thyme. Leaf oil is highly antiseptic due to thymol content which explains its use as a gargle, dressing for wounds and treatment...

Easy to use reference chart gives plant type, height, soil, light, propagation and part used for tea. Full chapter devoted to 70 popular tea herbs. Tips for blending your own teas as well as recipes.

Valuable crops can be grown under the trees, from fruits and nuts, maple syrup, shiitake and oyster mushroom, to medicinal plants such as ginseng, goldenseal, black cohosh, and bloodroot.

Rich reddish-purple daisies appear from July to September. Said to increase bodily resistance to infection by strengthening the immune system. Medicinal activity has not been tested but is likely to be similar to the purple variety.

Grows a greenish-white but may blush if it stays on the plant long enough. Low acid, fairly sweet. 75 days to maturity. Excellent for eating fresh sliced on a sandwich, and not too wet to add to a salad.

Adds special flavour to sausages and meatloaf. Rubbing with fresh leaves before roasting improves all strong meats. Use plant tops to dye wool in shades of yellow, orange, brown and grey.

Very easy to grow. Unusual, but interesting fish-like flavour. It may be best to grow fish mint in containers because it can be persistent and hard to remove later if planted in the garden.

Nice contrast to white-variegated or green herbs. Suited to partial or full sun. Traditionally used to cleanse the liverX1557 Astringent and mildly-analgesic aromatic herb used to treat wounds.

The heat is mildly hot, about 2,000-4,000 Scoville units. It is not uncommon to get 25-30 of these from a single plant. Excellent for . Anaheim type with huge peppers that get up to 20cm/8" long and 5cm/2" wide and weigh up to 4oz each.