Showing posts with label Plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plants. Show all posts

Sunday, May 4, 2014

New Guide to Homegrown Tea

This book explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea.

Liversidge lays out when and how to harvest your plants, as well as information on how to prepare the plant, including how to dry it to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year.

An Illustrated Guide to Planting, Harvesting, and Blending Teas and Tisanes
by Cassie Liversidge
St. Martin's Griffin, 2014
Tea
Here's How To...
Guidebooks and How-to Titles
Outrider Reading Group

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Farm and Garden Picks: Brassicaceae

This book is believed to be the the first collection of articles to summarize the most advanced information and studies of Brassicaceae, a special genus with vast species, which not only have tremendous human health beneficial compounds for dietary consumption, but also comprise the most metal hyperaccumulating species worldwide discovered to date with potential usage in phytoremediation of polluted soil, air and water.

Characterization, Functional Genomics and Health Benefits
Minglin Lang (Editor)
Nova Science Publishers, 2013
Farm and Garden Books
Science Writing
Growth Spurts
Home Grown