Growing & Using Herbs Successfully (Garden Way Book) [Paperback]

Betty E. M. Jacobs (Author)

Book Description

Series: Garden Way Book | Publication Date: January 4, 1981

Nowhere will you find more complete and straightforward information on growing, harvesting, and using herbs.  If fanciful prose and personal anecdotes are not your cup of tea (although we can’t resist it!), this book will satisfy your thirst for hard-core, unfiltered horticultural know-how.

This illustrated guide teaches readers how to plant, propagate, harvest, dry, freeze, store, and sell (both wholesale and retail) 64 of the most popular herbs.

One of the best and most straightforward works on growing herbs that this reviewer and zealous herb grower has read.-- New York Botanical Garden Magazine. A selection of Better Homes and Gardens and Rodale Book Clubs. Over 113,000 copies sold.

 

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...one of the best and most straightforward works on growing herbs that this reviewer and zealous herb grower has read." -- New York Botanical Garden Magazine

From the Back Cover

With home-grown herbs come the promise of flavor, scent, healing, and beauty. Open your garden to the beauty of herbs and the rewards will be manifold.

Herb-growers and those who have always wanted to try it will find a wealth of encouragement and sound advice in this well-illustrated book.

Betty Jacobs will tell you in helpful, easy-to-understand language how to get the best results with 64 herbs -- how to grow, harvest, and use them.

Plus a lot more:

-- Starting herbs indoors and outdoors.

-- Harvesting and storing herbs.

-- Getting the most from your greenhouse and lath house.

-- How to avoid buying costly perennial plants.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 4, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088266249X
• ISBN-13: 978-0882662497
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Information for Growing Herbs, January 12, 2006

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Virginia Allain "(retired librarian)" (Poinciana, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Growing & Using Herbs Successfully (Garden Way Book) (Paperback)

The propagation and growing instructions are clear and quite useful for the beginner. The author expands on those to growing in quantity for sale to restaurants or to sell potted plants.
One chapter gives ideas (bath perfumes, herb sachets, etc.) for herbal products to market, but readers will need other books to detail making these or else develop their own recipes from trial and error. A final chapter gives Points-To-Remember for building a successful herb business.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best book to get you planting, October 22, 2007

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E. Tozier (Crawford, Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Growing & Using Herbs Successfully (Garden Way Book) (Paperback)

I've had my own copy of this book for years and recently purchased another copy for a friend who wants to plant her own herbs. The book describes many herbs, how to plant, harvest and store them.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great info!, May 17, 2010

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D. Leonard (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Growing & Using Herbs Successfully (Garden Way Book) (Paperback)

My daughter has been working hard this year on growing herbs. This book was very helpful!