Your Backyard Herb Garden by Miranda Smith

Your Backyard Herb Garden by Miranda Smith

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Your Backyard Herb Garden by Miranda Smith

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.

Miranda Smith is an experienced editor who has written many books for both children and adults on subjects ranging from sharks and the human body to ancient Egypt and courgettes. Having raised three children in east London, she still lives in the family home with her husband and two cats.
Sean Callery is a teacher and an author of fiction and nonfiction for kids.
Miranda Smith is an experienced editor who has written many books for both children and adults on subjects ranging from sharks and the human body to ancient Egypt and courgettes. Having raised three children in east London, she still lives in the family home with her husband and two cats.
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ISBN 13 9780875969947
ISBN 10 0875969941
Title Your Backyard Herb Garden
Author Miranda Smith
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Rodale Press
Year published 1999-01-15
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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