Culinary Herbs in the Home Garden - For Use and For Delight!!
Lifelong Learning | Available (Membership Required)
This is the first in a series of Master Gardener lectures from Penn State Cooperative Extension.
Culinary herbs are easy to grow and are used for their flavor and fragrance to season food. They are also showy in the garden and as container plants. In addition, their nectar-producing flowers attract butterflies and beneficial insects, and a few are host plants for caterpillars of the beautiful black swallowtail butterfly. This talk provides practical 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 and beauty, to attract pollinators, and to add delight to your everyday cooking!
Silloo Kapadia
The Penn State Master Gardener Program was established to assist Cooperative Extension in providing horticultural knowledge and skills to local communities and the gardening public.
Silloo Kapadia is an Allegheny County Penn State Master Gardener (2012) and Past-Chair of Garden Hotline (April 2016 - October 2019). In 2018, she earned the Penn State Extension Master Gardener Advanced Certification in Woody Plant Identification.
Silloo obtained her first Master Gardener Certification in 2007 at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (where she remains a docent) and the Certificate of Sustainable Horticulture in 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. Her other Speaker’s Bureau talks include “Culinary Herbs in the Home Garden – For Use and Delight”, “Herbs and Spices in Indian Cuisine”, and “What’s Wrong with My Plant”.
Silloo is a retired physician and Professor of Pathology (UPMC and later at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center). She acquired her medical degree at Chennai (Madras), India, and did her Pathology residency at UPMC.