Culinary Herbs in the Home Garden - For Use and For Delight!

Culinary herbs are easy to grow and are used for their flavor and fragrance to season food. They are showy in the garden and as container plants. In addition, their nectar-producing flower attract butterflies and beneficial insects, and a few are host plants for caterpillars of the beautiful black swallowtail butterfly.

Join Penn State Master Gardener Silloo Kapadia at Northern Tier Library for a talk that will provide information on different aspects of culinary herb gardening including identification, hardiness, cultivation, disease-resistant cultivars, pollinators, propagation, harvesting, and suggestions for using them in the kitchen with selected recipes (pesto anyone?). Grow herbs in your garden for fragrance, for beauty, to attract pollinators, and to add delight to your everyday cooking!

Silloo Kapadia is a Penn State Master Gardener (PSMG, 2012) and former Chair of Garden Hotline. In 2018, she earned the Penn State Extension Master Gardener Advanced Certification in Woody Plant Identification. Silloo obtained her Phipps Master Gardener certification (2007) and the Phipps Certificate of Sustainable Horticulture (2013). She is a member and past Chair of the Western PA Unit of the Herb Society of America with an interest in Culinary Herbs and Spices. A retired physician and Professor of Pathology (UPMC and later at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center), Silloo acquired her medical degree at Chennai (Madras), India, and did her Pathology residency at UPMC.