With home-grown herbs come the promise of flavor, scent, healing, and beauty. Open your garden to the beauty of herbs and the rewards will be manifold. Herb-growers and those who have always wanted to try it will find a wealth of encouragement and sound advice in this well-illustrated book. Betty Jacobs will tell you in helpful, easy-to-understand language how to get the best results with 64 herbs--how to grow, harvest, and use them.

Plus a lot more:

• Starting herbs indoors and outdoors.
• Harvesting and storing herbs.
• Getting the most from your greenhouse and lath house.
• How to avoid buying costly perennial plants.

...one of the best and most straightforward works on growing herbs that this reviewer and zealous herb grower has read.
-- New York Botanical Garden Magazine