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

I enjoyed this book and found the pictures to be especially helpful.

Great book for all garden ideas: good plant neighbors, how to start and shape a garden - cheap! When to start, how to maintain, harvest, and use. A great go-to, with beautiful, realistic handdrawn pictures.

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.

This book enabled me to set up a thriving herb garden on the balcony of my apartment. It offers recipes for herbal breads and teas, instructions for making potpourri and drying herbs, and detailed but not complicated advice on setting up an herb garden, as well as detailed breakdowns on the care and usage of more than 50 herbs. Although a complete plant novice who has ritualistically sacrificed almost every houseplant I've ever owned, I visited the garden department of a hardware store with this book under my arm and got myself started. The ratings that Smith gives each herb are especially helpful--ease of care, herb yield, attention required, and ability to grow in containers. I highly recommend this book to get you started!

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!

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.

As a brand new herb gardener, I was becoming more confused by each herbal I read. This book is well organized into a progressive step by step layout. It offers planting guides for soil, sun, uses, and ease of care, making it easy for me to decide on the perfect plants for my space, garden location and the herbs I wanted to use. I especially appreciate the harvesting and storage tips. My first herb garden has been very successful following this guide. I am ordering more copies for friends and family.