Having a Herb Garden All of Your Own - Preparing, Growing and Harvesting Herbs in Your Garden

This volume comprises a comprehensive guide to creating and managing a herb garden, with information on preparing, growing, and harvesting herbs in your garden. Complete with detailed descriptions, step-by-step instructions, and a wealth of useful tips, this guide is perfect for the novice gardener, and makes for a great addition to collections of kitchen gardening literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Making a Herb Garden', 'Herbs Selected', 'Foreign Plants', 'Herbs of the Bible', 'Botany', 'History of Herbs', 'Doctrine of Signatures', 'How to Prepare Simples', 'The Herb Gardener's Calender', 'The Cultivation of Herbs', 'The Harvesting of Herbs', 'The Drying of Herbs', and more. We are proud to republish this vintage book, now complete with a new and specially commissioned introduction on homesteading.

Product details

• Authors: Anon, Anon.
• Publisher: Cartwright Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9781447452058
• ISBN: 978-1-4474-5205-8
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 114 g
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works