Kitchen and Herb Gardener Review

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(More customer reviews)I picked up this book as a gift last week, and I am now debating about giving it away or keeping it for myself, even though I am not a gardener. I thought that this book only talked about herbs and how to plant them... wrong, it contains so much more! It includes many landscape plans on how to design your garden in the medieval, renaissance, formal and many other styles. It not only includes herbs, but vegetables, fruits, some trees and flowers. It also shows you how to make your design a reality. Or you can use on of their many designs. After the section on design, there is a section about soils, planting, greenhouses, etc. and about the most common problems encountered and how to deal with them. It then has a section about vegetables, where it describes everything about that specific vegetable in a concise well-illustrated way. Each veggie takes two pages! Same deal with fruits and with herbs. It also has some recipe about what to do with some herbs/flowers, for example marigold skin salve. And lastly,it contains a great table describing seasonal tasks. Everything is in this book. It is a very well illustrated book, very easy to understand and it makes me want to pick up gardening!

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"Kitchen and Herb Gardener" is a practical guide to herb and kitchen gardening, from planning and planting to harvesting and storing. There are sections on how to design a garden, with plans and clear planting lists for vegetable plots, herb gardens, potagers, a fruit garden and many other themed gardens. Included in the text is practical and helpful advice on sowing outdoors and in greenhouses, as well as guidance on the transplanting, propogation and thinning of fruit, herbs and vegetables. This title also includes an easy-to-use calendar of seasonal tasks and lavishly illustrated notes on harvesting and the identification of the various fruit, vegetables and herbs. With its colour photography and practical advice, this is a useful reference manual for any gardener.

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