Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener’s Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them in Cooking, Crafts, Companion Planting and More
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Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener’s Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them in Cooking, Crafts, Companion Planting and More
Everything you need to know about growing your favorite herbs using safe, natural, all-organic methods!
Practical tips and advice on all aspects of successful herb growing.
A wealth of great ideas and helpful how-to on using herbs in cooking, crafts, cosmetics, health care, insect repellents, and more.
Illustrated herb directory featuring all the most popular herbs– from aloe to yarrow– each with complete information on growing, care, harvesting, and uses.
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The Herb Book: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to More Than 500 Herbs
The complete and authoritative guide to more than 500 herbs.
The most complete reference catalog of nature’s herbs ever published.
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Review by C. Arnette for Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener’s Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them in Cooking, Crafts, Companion Planting and More
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I’ve always been interested in herbs but I have very little gardening experience. This book will walk you though all the steps you need to take in order to grow your own herbs. I purchased this book along with another which I’ve never even opened because this book is so good. Talk about user friendly, the charts are simple and the photos are inspiring. You’ll find information on planting, preparing, growing and caring for herbs. Also there’s a whole section on enjoying your herbs with crafts and cooking. The section I’ve found most useful is the herb directory. This is the only book you need to get started.
Review by Marion for Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener’s Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them in Cooking, Crafts, Companion Planting and More
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I wish I’d had this book years ago when I first started growing herbs. It would have saved me lots of ‘trial and error’ experimenting with my herb garden. This informative, thorough guide is good reading for the beginner as well as the expert herb gardener. There are lists of which herbs love shade and which love full sun; lists of what kind of soil each herb prefers; lists of fragrant herbs and culinary herbs. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to start an herb garden or learn more about growing and using herbs, earth’s magical gifts to us!
Review by rodboomboom for Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener’s Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them in Cooking, Crafts, Companion Planting and More
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Here is what one needs to grow herbs — soil conditioning, pests, fertilizing, watering — all of them done organically.
What I find really attractive is a chart on each of the fifty herbs discussed showing its Attention Required, Freindly to bugs, Ornamental quality, Container Growing, Yield, Easy to Grow.
There is also great section on propogation, using in cooking and beauty, dried arrangements, etc.
Done in color with great drawings, this is informative book, each page is loaded with info.
Review by lostbronte for Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener’s Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them in Cooking, Crafts, Companion Planting and More
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This book enabled me to set up a thriving herb garden on the balcony of my apartment. It offers recipes for herbal breads and teas, instructions for making potpourri and drying herbs, and detailed but not complicated advice on setting up an herb garden, as well as detailed breakdowns on the care and usage of more than 50 herbs. Although a complete plant novice who has ritualistically sacrificed almost every houseplant I’ve ever owned, I visited the garden department of a hardware store with this book under my arm and got myself started. The ratings that Smith gives each herb are especially helpful–ease of care, herb yield, attention required, and ability to grow in containers. I highly recommend this book to get you started!
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As a brand new herb gardener, I was becoming more confused by each herbal I read. This book is well organized into a progressive step by step layout. It offers planting guides for soil, sun, uses, and ease of care, making it easy for me to decide on the perfect plants for my space, garden location and the herbs I wanted to use. I especially appreciate the harvesting and storage tips. My first herb garden has been very successful following this guide. I am ordering more copies for friends and family.
Review by cellarstella for The Herb Book: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to More Than 500 Herbs
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I bought this book when I was 12 at a library sale for 25 cents. Since then, I’ve spent quite a bit more on herb books, but this is still the best of my collection! It’s a fantasic reference book because you can look up herbs by common name, scientific name, and even by what ailments they treat. It doesn’t contain much New Age spiritual information, which suits my scientific mind just fine. The author presents very logical arguments for making your own medicine/cosmetics/spices, whether purchased, home-grown, or wild-gathered. Just like other reviewers have stated, this is my number one resource on herbs, even with the development of the internet and google.
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I have been working with herbs for fifteen years now, and this book has been invaluable through all of them. It includes medicinal and cosmetic uses of almost any herb you can think of, as well as traditional uses and some background. I’ve introduced several herbalist friends to it, and they now refuse to be without it. If you get only one book on herbs, make it this one.
Review by R. F. Benson for The Herb Book: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to More Than 500 Herbs
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I have been using my copy for thirty years now– pages are yellowed and crunchy and glue is crackling. The descriptions and origins are great. Line drawings instead of water colors. So much info packed into one volume– plant taxonomy, uses, recipes, tables galore, multiple indices, myths, legends. I teach herbal classes and this is always the first book I recommend!
Review by greenearth_octobersky for The Herb Book: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to More Than 500 Herbs
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This is the book by which I learned the bulk of my herbal knowledge – Knowledge of plants, their medicinal uses and how to harvest , process and store them. Excellent for beginners or seasoned herbalists alike, it is intelligently written, yet simple to understand. It is written in plain language, yet introduces readers to a wealth of medical terminology. After nearly 15 years of using this book, it is still the one I bring with me when I go out into the greenhouse, garden or woods.
Review by Jaspenelle Stewart for The Herb Book: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to More Than 500 Herbs
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This is the one, the one book I feel anyone serious about herbs should have in their collection. It has proved invaluable to me in so many ways. It includes cosmetic and medicinal for most any herb you can think of. It is also good for information on traditional uses and background knowledge. It can be a bit overwhelming at first but once you get a grasp on how it is organised (it didn’t take me long) it proves indespensible.