Growing a Great Herb Garden Class Notes (PDF)

Growing your own culinary and medicinal herbs is a great way to save money, improve your health, expand your gardening skills, and attract beneficial insects to your home garden. Lots of gardeners already include a few culinary and medicinal herbs in their gardens, but don’t always know how to delve deeper into herb gardening.

In these class notes, you'll take a closer look at 10 useful herbs that deserve a place in your garden, learn about choosing a good garden site, and find out how to choose herbs that are the best fit for your microclimates. You'll also learn how to propagate perennial herbs by division, cutting, and layering, and cover basic harvesting and drying information so you can enjoy your homegrown herbs in culinary and medicinal preparations year-round.

8 pages | 3,800 words