Our Herb Garden

A Culinary Journey

growing herbs

As the days began to turn warmer, our family began to consider what wonderful things we could grow this year in our garden. I suspect that it would be safe to classify ourselves as advanced hobbiests in our gardening knowledge. This year we decided to get more adventurous, both in the garden and in the kitchen, and add a selection of herbs to our growing list of must-haves.
 
We reviewed a number of vintage and modern opinions and ideas on herb growing and in the process ended up creating an extensive notebook of information.
 
We thought others might be interested in what we found. Our garden will not be playing host to the entire list but we included our research along with a few extras we thought others might be looking for.
 
We hope you find our little site useful and share it with your friends and family.
 
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Our Herb Garden

References

We have worked hard on this site to ensure that the information presented is as accurate as possible. To that end, we thought it would be useful to include those materials that we used in our research.
 

George Borrow.

The Bible in Spain, 1843.
 

G.W. Septimus Piesse.

The Art of Perfumery, and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants, 1857, Linday and Blakiston.
 

Fearing Burr, Jr.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America, 1863, Crosby and Nichols.
 

William Thomas Fernie.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, 1897 edition, Boericke & Tafel.
 

T.F. Thiselton-Dyer.

The Folk-Lore of Plants, 1889.
 

Neltje Blanchan.

Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors, 1900.
 

M. G. Kains.

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses, 1912, Orange Judd Company.
 

Alice M. Coats.

Flowers and Their Histories, 1968 edition (2nd), McGraw-Hill.
 

Roger Phillips and Nicky Foy.

The Random House Book of Herbs - How to grow or gather herbal plants and use them for cooking, health and beauty, 1990.
 

Sarah Garland.

The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices - An illustrated guide to growing and using culinary, aromatic, cosmetic and medicinal plants, 1993 edition published by The Reader's Digest.
 

Sally Roth.

The Successful Herb Gardener - Growing and Using Herbs - Quickly and Easily, 2001, Country Living Gardener.
 

USDA Website.

Illustrations for several of the herbs and their seeds appearing on Our Herb Garden are from the United States Department of Agriculture website. All of these images are used in accordance with the copyright restrictions as stated on their website and under US Copyright law as it relates to government owned images and illustrations.
 

sxc.hu.

The Stock Exchange is a stock photo exchange website where photographers share their work and allow others to use them without attribution or royalties. Many of the beautiful photos appearing on Our Herb Garden were found on that site and our family would like to thank all of the generous folks who make their images available there without restructions.
 

Wikipedia.org.

A number of our written materials included references to people and places and failed to include dates and other information about those references. Wikipedia proved invaluable in ensuring that when blending a variety of sources for our Herbal Histories we maintained a correct chronological order or events and add further details about the people and places involved.