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Six free resources built specifically to go alongside the book — charts, guides, and cheat sheets so you always have something useful in your hand when you need it most.

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Ivy Green · Your Dirt Diva

Here’s what I’ve learned after years of watching beginner herb gardens either take off or quietly die in a windowsill pot: the difference is almost never the herbs themselves. It’s having the right information at the right moment — when you’re standing in the nursery not sure what to grab, or realizing something looks wrong at ten in the morning and not knowing what you’re looking at. These six tools were built for exactly those moments. They go alongside the book so you never have to flip through chapters trying to find one number. Get them, print the ones you need, and go grow something.

What You’ll Get

Six Tools Built for Herb Gardeners Who Mean Business

No fluff. Every one of these was built to answer a specific question the book walks you through — so you always have something actionable in your hand, not just in your reading stack.

☀️Herb Sun, Water & Spacing Quick Reference Card

Arrives ImmediatelyWhat’s InsideAll 20 herbs from the book in one scannable chart — sun requirements, watering frequency, and spacing at a glance. The card you tape to the inside of your garden shed door or take to the nursery when you’re not sure where something goes.

✂️Herb Harvest Timing Guide

Arrives ImmediatelyWhat’s InsideHerb-by-herb guidance on when to start harvesting, how often, and the signs that tell you a plant is at its peak versus past it. Knowing when to cut is half of keeping herbs producing all season.

🔍Troubleshooting Guide: When Good Herbs Go Bad

Arrives ImmediatelyWhat’s InsideSymptom-first diagnosis for the most common herb problems — yellowing, wilting, spots, sticky residue, holes in leaves. Find the symptom, find the cause, find the fix. Built so you don’t have to remember which chapter covers what.

🍽️Herb Flavor Pairing Chart

Arrives Shortly AfterWhat’s InsideClassic and unexpected pairings for all 20 herbs, organized by cuisine and by ingredient. The reference you pull up when you’re looking at what’s ready in the garden and trying to decide what to make with it tonight.

🫙Herb Preservation Method Cheat Sheet

Arrives Shortly AfterWhat’s InsideWhich herbs dry well, which ones freeze better, which ones are worth infusing — organized by herb with key time and temperature details and the storage rules that actually matter. Includes the safety rules for herb oils so you never have to guess.

🪴Indoor Herb Garden Setup Checklist

Arrives Shortly AfterWhat’s InsideContainer size, light assessment, soil selection, and watering approach for each indoor herb — all in one organized reference. Run through it before you set up your windowsill garden and skip the most common setup mistakes.

🐛Pest ID Quick Card — Coming Soon

Bonus · Coming SoonWhat’s InsideA visual identification guide for the most common herb pests — photos, descriptions, and first-response controls so you know exactly what you’re dealing with before you reach for anything. This one’s in production and will come to you as a bonus when it’s ready.

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Kevin Mansoor · Certified Nursery Professional

Most herb failures I saw at the garden center came down to one of three things: the wrong light, the wrong watering habit, or a pest or disease problem that wasn’t caught early enough. The frustrating part is that all three are preventable — but only if you know what to look for and when. The Sun, Water and Spacing Card and the Troubleshooting Guide were built specifically around the patterns I saw repeated most often. The information in them isn’t complicated. It just needs to be accessible at the right moment, not buried in a chapter you have to find first.

☀️ Ivy’s Translation

In other words — Kevin spent years watching people lose herbs to completely preventable problems. These tools are what we wish we could have handed every one of those people before it happened. Print the ones that feel useful, keep them somewhere you’ll actually see them, and save yourself some frustration.

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Join the Dirt Diva community and all six tools land in your inbox in two batches — so you have time to actually use them. Plus ongoing herb gardening tips, seasonal reminders, and Ivy’s no-nonsense growing advice.

☀️ Herb Sun, Water & Spacing Quick Reference Card
✂️ Herb Harvest Timing Guide
🔍 Troubleshooting Guide: When Good Herbs Go Bad
🍽️ Herb Flavor Pairing Chart
🫙 Herb Preservation Method Cheat Sheet
🪴 Indoor Herb Garden Setup Checklist
🐛 Pest ID Quick Card — bonus when ready

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More from Ivy’s Garden

If you’re building out your herb library, Kevin and Ivy have other beginner gardening books covering blueberries, container food gardening, sprouts and microgreens, and more — all written the same way this one was: practical, honest, and genuinely useful for someone just getting started.

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