Growing and Using Herbs Successfully

In this illustrated guide, Betty Jacobs shows you how to raise and use 64 popular herbs, explaining everything from starting your herbs (indoors or outdoors) to harvesting, drying, freezing, storing, using, and selling them.Includes favorites such as basil, chives, coriander, dill, fennel, garlic, lavender, oregano, parsley, and sage, as well as more unusual selections like bergamot, chamomile, horehound, lemon verbena, and sweet woodruff.

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.