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 | 
| Author: Miranda Smith
Publisher: Rodale Books
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 9049
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0875969941
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.7
EAN: 9780875969947
ASIN: 0875969941
Publication Date: January 15, 1999
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Product Description
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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This Book is Fabulous! April 8, 2002
Marion (Louisiana)
82 out of 85 found this review helpful
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!
The beginner's handbook June 3, 2001
C. Arnette (Louisville, KY United States)
65 out of 65 found this review helpful
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.
Help to Aid Your Herb Production August 10, 2004
rodboomboom (Dearborn, Michigan United States)
51 out of 52 found this review helpful
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.
Invaluable for the beginner May 31, 2003
lostbronte (Southern California, USA)
39 out of 39 found this review helpful
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!
Fantastic Guide to Growing Your Own Herbs March 17, 2001
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
I LOVE this book. We live in a condo and have no yard space at all. This book helped me set up containers on my decks filled with wonderful fresh herbs. It's such a great experience to know that I CAN grow them myself instead of having to rely on "store bought" jars. I just bought another copy as a house warming gift for a friend. It's easy to understand and takes you step by step through the entire growing, planting & harvesting. It tells you about pests too. Great book!!!
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