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.

Nowhere will you find more complete and straightforward information on growing, harvesting, and using herbs. If fanciful prose and personal anecdotes are not your cup of tea (although we can't resist it ), this book will satisfy your thirst for hard-core, unfiltered horticultural know-how.

This illustrated guide teaches readers how to plant, propagate, harvest, dry, freeze, store, and sell (both wholesale and retail) 64 of the most popular herbs.

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. A selection of Better Homes and Gardens and Rodale Book Clubs. Over 113,000 copies sold.

With her husband, Betty E. M. Jacobs started Canada's first commercial Herb Farm in 1965 on a southern Vancouver Island. Their experience running this farm for eight years and a lifetime of interest in herbs led to Betty's book, Growing and Using Herbs Successfully.

Chapter 1

Starting Your Herb Garden

Chapter 2

Thirty-two More Herbs to Grow

Chapter 3

A Guide to the Vegetative Propagation of Perennial Herbs

Chapter 4

Harvesting, Drying, Storing, and Freezing Herbs

Chapter 5

Growing Herbs for Profit

Chapter 6

Markets and Marketing

Chapter 7

Growing Parsley

Chapter 8

Growing Chives

Chapter 9

Herb Products For Fun or Profit

Chapter 10

Building a Successful Business

Glossary

Appendixes

Index