The Complete Herb Book

by Jekka McVicar

Book Overview

An invaluable A-Z guide that brings together all aspects of an individual herb--history, cultivation, propagation and harvesting, and cosmetic, medicinal and culinary uses. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856263460
• ISBN13: 9781856263467
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Kyle Cathie Limited
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Reference

I needed this book for a class I'm taking, and eve though its difficult to find (and out of print) I understand why my instructor wanted this book. It's got great pitures, it's easy to understand, and has great info. I only wish it alphabatized by common name instead of botanical though.

The Complete Herb Book

I have a lot of herb books, but this is the best one my daughter and I havefound yet. Shows you actually pictures of each herb, its origin, what uses it can be used for (cosmetic, medicinal, culunary. Would highly recommend.

Great Herb Growing/Using Book

This is another book I checked out of the library and had to add to my permanent collection. This is a great book with color pictures of each plant outlined, how to grow it, how to harvest it, and how to use it. That sounds trite and boring, but let me assure you, this book spends time on each plant, the left page deals with the planting and harvesting and the right page deals with the storage and use of the herb. Each herb has a recipe of some type (for food, for cosmetics, for aromatics, etc.) that has a picture of the completed item. I have a couple of other herb books that I like, but this one I LOVE to look through and will be adding a few more herbs to my garden each season based on this book!

The Complete Herb Book

What an extensive encyclopedia of information from A-Z! Complete information in easy to use format with information from propagation, pests and diseases, maintenance, garden cultivation, harvesting, companion planting, container growing, medicinal uses, other uses, and culinary applications & more! I made the Chive Butter and it's hmmmm, hmmmm, good on sweet corn on the cob! Next I plan to try the Sweet Marigold Muffins. It also has info on planning a herb garden with 10 sample plans, beautiful photographys throughout, how to preserve herbs by drying and freezing, and making and using natural dyes! It's a 5 star addition to my extensive herb library.

Wonderful

This book has it all -- great pictures, great ideas, even great recipes. A good resource for those who want to build their own herb garden.