(Ebook) Culinary herbs for short-season gardeners by Deutsch, Grace;Small, Ernest ISBN 9780660177854, 9780660186009, 9780968891308, 0660177854, 0660186004, 0968891306

(Ebook) Culinary herbs for short-season gardeners by Deutsch, Grace;Small, Ernest ISBN 9780660177854, 9780660186009, 9780968891308, 0660177854, 0660186004, 0968891306

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.;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.