Learn how to grow unusual culinary herbs such as ginger, lemon grass, lemon verbena and roselle. For each herb, discover the best time and method to start, cultural requirements, harvesting and preserving techniques, and methods for using them in the kitchen. These are herbs that can be grown in the summer, but they are not as commonly known as the Mediterranean herbs.

Peggy Riccio is a horticulturist and garden communicator in Northern Virginia. Her website, pegplant.com, is an online resource for gardeners in the DC metro area. She publishes a local gardening newsletter, Pegplant’s Post Gardening Newsletter. She has given numerous in person and virtual presentations and continues the conversation in her Facebook group called Culinary Herbs and Spices. Over the past 30 years, Peggy has written more than 100 articles for national gardening magazines. Currently, Peggy serves as the Education Chair for the Herb Society of America.