Learning How To Grow Your Own Spices

Learning How To Grow Your Own Spices

Author and spice-growing gardener Tasha Greer offers practical tips on cultivating over 30 different spices, including easy-to-grow seed spices like sesame seeds, fennel, and cumin as well as the more challenging star anise, cinnamon, and nutmeg.


The pages of Grow Your Own Spices include advice on cultivating saffron, the world’s most expensive spice, and tropical spices like vanilla, ginger, turmeric, and cardamom in cold climates.


Greer explains how to cultivate root spices like horseradish and chicory, and how to harvest wasabi, cloves, capers, mustard, sesame seeds, and even paprika.