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HERB GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS
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Product Description
"From garden design to cultivation, tips and details abound in this book of picture-perfect herb gardens."--Country Almanac
Grow herbs for food, to use medicinally, to make under-used areas of the backyard pretty and fragrant--with the help of award-winning gardener and photographer Derek Fell. Any beginner will have a green thumb just following his foolproof instructions on:
planning and planting, site and soil requirements, and after-carethemes and designs, from formal parterres to fragrance gardens to container groupings using the herbs--whether in cooking or handicrafts--and preserving the excess yield the best herbs to growpests and diseases Special boxes offer expert tips on topics from mixing flowers and herbs to planting a lawn of low, spreading chamomile or thyme. Best of all, sample garden designs offer ready-made plans for picture-perfect herb gardens!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2051139 in Books
- Published on: 2001-09-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 120 pages
