This volume comprises a comprehensive guide to creating and managing a
herb garden, with information on preparing, growing, and harvesting
herbs in your garden. Complete with detailed descriptions, step-by-step
instructions, and a wealth of useful tips, this guide is perfect for the
novice gardener, and makes for a great addition to collections of
kitchen gardening literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Making
a Herb Garden', 'Herbs Selected', 'Foreign Plants', 'Herbs of the
Bible', 'Botany', 'History of Herbs', 'Doctrine of Signatures', 'How to
Prepare Simples', 'The Herb Gardener's Calender', 'The Cultivation of
Herbs', 'The Harvesting of Herbs', 'The Drying of Herbs', and more. We
are proud to republish this vintage book, now complete with a new and
specially commissioned introduction on homesteading.