Article: Growing herbs in northern climes. (Bookshelf).

* When it comes to culinary herbs gardeners in the West's intermountain regions face a basic challenge: how to grow them successfully where summers are short and winters are cold. Canadian writers Ernest Small and Grace Deutsch have addressed this challenge head-on in Culinary Herbs for Short-Season Gardeners (Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 2002; $20; 800/234-5308 or www.mountain-press.com) Small and Deutsch describe more than 50 species of herbs, with extensive notes on their cultivation, harvest, culinary or medicinal uses, and health cautions (if any). Besides standards like basil and oregano (shown at left), the ...

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