Herbal Remedy Gardens: 38 Plans for Your Health & Well-Being [Paperback]

Dorie Byers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 1999

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"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." -- Nancy Clifton, Horticultural Specialist, Plant Information, The School of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Current Books on Gardening & Botany, 12/7/99

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

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; First Edition edition (January 2, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580170951
• ISBN-13: 978-1580170956
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #490,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars well organized and practical, October 21, 2002

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Lynn Harnett (Marathon, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Herbal Remedy Gardens: 38 Plans for Your Health & Well-Being (Paperback)

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, January 18, 2005

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A. Nichols - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Herbal Remedy Gardens: 38 Plans for Your Health & Well-Being (Paperback)

I've been interested in herbs and herbal gardens for years. Many books explain the uses for the herbs, but less have the fantastic garden layouts and detailed instructions for growing the herbs. Medicinal herbs are a great thing to use, I grew up using them. I just wasn't quite sure how to go about choosing which herbs, planting, etc. I'm not a gardener. It is perfect for those of us who know about the herbs (though it does give you many interesting recipes and details of the usage, as well), but want the practicalities as well.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!, March 2, 2002

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Connie Gordon (Veradale, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Herbal Remedy Gardens: 38 Plans for Your Health & Well-Being (Paperback)

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!