Your Backyard Herb Garden brings both beauty and practicality to this immensely popular subject. Over 300 color photos and illustrations are featured, covering more than 50 of the most popular garden herbs. Includes recipes for herbal seasonings, vinegars, oils, jellies, breads and teas.
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"Your Backyard Herb Garden captures all the excitement of herbs and makes them easy to grow and enjoy."--Susan McClure, author of The Herb Gardener
"A skilled gardener and teacher, Miranda Smith knows her subject well, writes about it easily, and obviously enjoys the special charms of herbs. She conveys all this in Your Backyard Herb Garden. Her no-nonsense advice on soil building, fertilizing, pest control, and watering is pure gold. She also covers harvesting and using herbs in teas, vinegars, cosmetics, potpourris, crafts, and more. Do try Miranda's rose geranium jelly!"--Bertha Reppert, author of Growing Your Herb Business and Herbs with Confidence, and herbarist in residence at The Rosemary House, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
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"A skilled gardener and teacher, Miranda Smith knows her subject well, writes about it easily, and obviously enjoys the special charms of herbs. She conveys all this in Your Backyard Herb Garden. Her no-nonsense advice on soil building, fertilizing, pest control, and watering is pure gold. She also covers harvesting and using herbs in teas, vinegars, cosmetics, potpourris, crafts, and more. Do try Miranda's rose geranium jelly!"--Bertha Reppert, author of Growing Your Herb Business and Herbs with Confidence, and herbarist in residence at The Rosemary House, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
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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.
"Your Backyard Herb Garden captures all the excitement of herbs and makes them easy to grow and enjoy."--Susan McClure, author of The Herb Gardener
"A skilled gardener and teacher, Miranda Smith knows her subject well, writes about it easily, and obviously enjoys the special charms of herbs. She conveys all this in Your Backyard Herb Garden. Her no-nonsense advice on soil building, fertilizing, pest control, and watering is pure gold. She also covers harvesting and using herbs in teas, vinegars, cosmetics, potpourris, crafts, and more. Do try Miranda's rose geranium jelly!"--Bertha Reppert, author of Growing Your Herb Business and Herbs with Confidence, and herbarist in residence at The Rosemary House, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Miranda Smith teaches organic and sustainable methods of growing herbs, vegetables, and fruits at the New England Small Farm Institute. She lives in Belchertown, Massachusetts.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
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.
"Your Backyard Herb Garden captures all the excitement of herbs and makes them easy to grow and enjoy."--Susan McClure, author of The Herb Gardener
"A skilled gardener and teacher, Miranda Smith knows her subject well, writes about it easily, and obviously enjoys the special charms of herbs. She conveys all this in Your Backyard Herb Garden. Her no-nonsense advice on soil building, fertilizing, pest control, and watering is pure gold. She also covers harvesting and using herbs in teas, vinegars, cosmetics, potpourris, crafts, and more. Do try Miranda's rose geranium jelly!"--Bertha Reppert, author of Growing Your Herb Business and Herbs with Confidence, and herbarist in residence at The Rosemary House, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Miranda Smith teaches organic and sustainable methods of growing herbs, vegetables, and fruits at the New England Small Farm Institute. She lives in Belchertown, Massachusetts.
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This review is from: 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 (Paperback)
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.
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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!
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Help to Aid Your Herb Production,
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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.
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HERB GARDENS are a delight in every possible way. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
seed indoors, fruit leather insert, enclose seed heads, last spring frost date, condition oily hair, morning after the dew dries, frozen herbs, plant spacing, newspaper pots, moist medium, herbal wreaths, divide plants, overwinter indoors, prefers full sun, filtered shade, winter bouquets, combination with other herbs, tolerates partial shade, start seeds indoors, herbal vinegar, average fertility, anise hyssop, chive flowers, prefers partial shade, transplant seedlings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yield Easy, Ornamental Container, North of Zone, Medium South, East Indian, High South, Cuttings Spring, March-April Start, Leaves Potpourris New!
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HERB GARDENS are a delight in every possible way. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
seed indoors, fruit leather insert, enclose seed heads, last spring frost date, condition oily hair, morning after the dew dries, frozen herbs, plant spacing, newspaper pots, moist medium, herbal wreaths, divide plants, overwinter indoors, prefers full sun, filtered shade, winter bouquets, combination with other herbs, tolerates partial shade, start seeds indoors, herbal vinegar, average fertility, anise hyssop, chive flowers, prefers partial shade, transplant seedlings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yield Easy, Ornamental Container, North of Zone, Medium South, East Indian, High South, Cuttings Spring, March-April Start, Leaves Potpourris New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Modern Herbal by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter
- A Modern Herbal (Volume 1, A-H): The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs & Trees with Their Modern Scientific Uses by Margaret Grieve in Back Matter
- Herbal Vinegar: Flavored Vinegars, Mustards, Chutneys, Preserves, Conserves, Salsas, Cosmetic Uses, Household Tips by Maggie Oster in Back Matter
- Organic Gardening (Penguin Handbooks) by Lawrence D. Hills in Back Matter
- The Way of Herbs: Fully Updated with the Latest Developments in Herbal Science by Michael Tierra in Back Matter
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- Beautiful Easy Herbs: How to Get the Most from Herbs-In Your Garden and in Your Home by Laurence Sombke in Back Matter, and Back Cover
- Day Tripping by Teri J Brown on page 128
- Herbal Remedies (Rodale's Essential Herbal Handbooks) by Kathleen Fisher in Back Matter
- 1,001 Ingenious Gardening Ideas: New, Fun and Fabulous That Will Change the Way You Garden - Forever! (Rodale Garden Book) by Deborah L. Martin in Back Matter
- Great Garden Gadgets: Make-It-Yourself Gizmos and Projects by Fern Marshall Bradley in Back Matter
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