Growing & Using Herbs Successfully

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.

With her husband, Betty E. M. Jacobs started Canada's first commercial Herb Farm in 1965 on a southern Vancouver Island. Their experience running this farm for eight years and a lifetime of interest in herbs led to Betty's book, Growing & Using Herbs Successfully.

With homegrown 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 sell herbs, both wholesale and retail.

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