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An Introduction to Smallholdings

by · August 13, 2021

Getting Started On Your Smallholding

"An Introduction to Smallholdings" is a guide if you are considering becoming self-sufficient and moving to a smallholding. This book is written to help you live the dream and move away from the urban areas, into the country and enjoy a simpler way of life. It explains many of the things you must know when you start looking for a smallholding of your own.

Starting a smallholding is a major life change that needs a lot of information and thought. This book guides you through everything you need to know before you move to your dream smallholding. You learn what makes a successful smallholding as well as everything you need to consider before taking on a smallholding to give you the best chance of success.

There is so much to consider, from location to schooling for children to how you are going to generate an income; all of which are very important. This book details all the different things you can grow on a smallholding, including some unusual ideas that can make good money! You will learn some vital growing techniques plus how to keep different types of animal, both as a source of income and food.

As you read "An Introduction to Smallholdings", you will learn

  • What you need to do to make your smallholding successful
  • Everything that needs to be considered before moving to a smallholding
  • What to look for when choosing a location for your smallholding
  • What to grow on your smallholding, including some thoughts on becoming an organic farmer
  • How to work your smallholding in an environmentally friendly way
  • Which livestock you can keep, what you need to know about them and some of the best breeds for smallholders
  • Ways to make an income from your smallholding year after year

And, of course, much, much more.

This book gives you a surprising insight into owning a smallholding and gives you plenty to think about as you make your decision to move to this new life. This is a big, life-changing decision, but this book helps guide you through the potential minefield so you can successfully make the move.

Find out more today about starting your own smallholding and get away from the stress of urban life!

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Non-Fiction

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Chickens, Composting, Smallholding, Vegetable Gardening

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The Complete Allotment Guide – Volume 1

by · August 13, 2021

Everything You Need To Know To Grow Fruits and Vegetables

The Complete Allotment Guide
Part of the The Complete Allotment Guide series:
Editions:Kindle: $ 4.99
ISBN: B08ZYVQXWX
Paperback: $ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1838336059
Size: 8.50 x 11.00 in
Pages: 166

The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" is the first in a series of books teaching you everything you need to know to get started growing fruit and vegetables. Whether you have an allotment, a smallholding or a vegetable garden at home, you will learn how to start growing in the ground and in containers.

This step-by-step guide starts from first principles, teaching you everything from how to choose an allotment to clearing weeds, coping with the weather and how to set your vegetable garden up. You learn exactly what to look for when choosing an allotment plus how to apply and how allotment sites work, which is useful for new allotment owners. Even if you are growing at home, there is plenty of information to help you get started growing.

Whether you are brand new to growing your own or whether you have dabbled, this book teaches you everything about owning and running an allotment. Written by a long term allotment owner, the information is first hand and gives you a real world view of having an allotment, packed full of valuable information to help you make the most of your allotment.

The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" goes into detail about how to work an allotment and grow fruit and vegetables. As you read this book, you will discover:

  • How to compost, including what you can and cannot compost
  • The common pests you will encounter and how to deal with them
  • The various problems you may encounter and how to overcome them
  • How to grow from seeds plus what F1 and heirloom seeds are
  • When to feed your plants and what fertilisers to use, including how to make your own
  • What companion planting is and how it benefits you and your plants
  • Why you must rotate crops on your allotment and how to do it
  • How to run an allotment with children so they can enjoy it too
  • Different gardening techniques so you know how to look after your vegetable garden
  • Ways to maximise productivity from your allotment while minimising the amount of work you have to do

As well as this, you get a comprehensive guide to sowing seeds showing you when to sow different types of vegetable seed, when to plant outside and when to harvest crops. You also get a month by month guide telling you what jobs to do at an allotment, including:

  • Vegetable garden jobs
  • Fruit garden jobs
  • What to harvest
  • What to sow
  • Greenhouse jobs

If you are new to growing vegetables, this is the book for you. Whether you are growing at home or growing at an allotment, this book is full of useful information helping you get started and grow successfully.

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Non-Fiction

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Allotment Planning, growing herbs, growing lavender, growing pears, growing potatoes, Growing Pumpkins, Growing Tomatoes, Growing Vegetables, Growing Zucchini, Jason's Books, Raised Beds, Vegetable Gardening

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The Complete Allotment Journal

by · August 13, 2021

A Month By Month Guide To Growing Vegetables

The Allotment Journal
Part of the The Complete Allotment Guide series:
Editions:Paperback: $ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1838336066
Size: 8.50 x 11.00 in
Pages: 229
Kindle: $ 4.99
ISBN: B0999MX1XN

When you have an allotment, a key part of successfully growing year after year is to plan what you are going to grow and where you are going to grow it. On top of this, you need to remember what you planted where last year so you avoid pests and diseases building up in the soil.

This book helps you to plan your allotment or vegetable garden, covering everything from planning your vegetable plot to tracking what you are planting and more. It is designed to help you get the most out of your allotment while still keeping growing vegetables as good fun and you not getting bogged down with paperwork.

Whether you have an allotment or have turned over part of your garden to growing vegetables, this guide will help you track what you have grown, what has worked and what you can do to improve your yields. As well as all this, the book includes helpful growing guides for over 50 different vegetables commonly grown at home. These step-by-step guides teach you everything you need to know to successfully grow these plants plus how to avoid the common problems people encounter with them.

This vegetable garden planner covers everything you need to know for a successful growing year, including:

  • Track Your Seeds - every gardener has packets of seeds everywhere. You get a helpful table for tracking what seeds you have so you don't buy seeds you don't need
  • Weekly Diary - a week by week diary so you can track what to plant, what to harvest and what jobs need to be done
  • Planting Log - track everything you have planted this year so you can discover patterns or anomalies
  • Pest and Disease Log - track the pests and diseases you encounter in your vegetable garden, which helps you know what treatments work and how the weather affects pests and diseases
  • Lessons Learned - keep track of your harvest, what did well and what to not grow again, helping you understand what grows best in your environment
  • What To Grow Next Year - plan what you are going to grow next year based on how everything performed this year
  • Seed Planting Schedule - a detailed guide of when to sow, plant out and harvest the vegetables detailed in this book
  • Growing Guides - step-by-step growing guides for over 50 different vegetables and herbs that are commonly grown at home
  • Monthly Gardening Jobs - a detailed, month by month guide of what to sow and harvest in your vegetable and fruit garden plus what to do in your greenhouse and around your allotment
  • Gardening Techniques - learn basic gardening techniques such as crop rotation, companion planting, hardening off and how to prune fruit trees
  • Recipes - discover some of my favourite recipes from the vegetable garden including a guide to making jam and chutney

Plus you get printable copies of everything so you can print them at home and write on them.

This is the ultimate vegetable garden planner, combining proven planning and tracking techniques with valuable information for the new and experienced gardener. With everything in one place, this book will quickly become your go to guide for your allotment or vegetable plot.

Start planning your vegetable garden today and make the most of the growing season. This allotment planner makes planning fun and easy to do, which helps you get the most out of your allotment or vegetable garden.

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Non-Fiction

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Allotment Planning, Fruit, greenhouse gardening, Growing Brassicas, Growing Broccoli, Growing Cauliflower, growing chilies, Growing Courgettes, herb gardening, Jason's Books

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A Gardener’s Guide To Weeds

by · August 13, 2021

How To Use Common Garden Weeds For Food, Health, Beauty And More

"A Gardener's Guide To Weeds" is a guide to weeds commonly found in the garden and on the vegetable plot. This book teaches you about these weeds, how they can benefit your garden and wildlife, plus how they can be used as medicine and in the kitchen.

There are many different types of weed in your garden, many of which have been used for hundreds and even thousands of years as medicine and food. Many of the weeds that we regularly dig up and compost are the ancestors of our current vegetable crops. Some of these, such as fat hen, were regularly eaten up until a couple of hundred years ago.

It is fascinating to find out more about the weeds that grow in our garden and to realize that these 'weeds' are beneficial plants with many uses. Did you know, for example, that the common weed yarrow was used in the World Wars to stem bleeding and as a field dressing?

As you read this book, you will learn about common weeds that grow in your garden. You will find out how they can be used in the kitchen, how they benefit your garden, and how they have been used in the past as medicine.

As you read "A Gardener's Guide To Weeds, you will discover:

  • How common garden weeds can be eaten and used rather than just composted
  • Many beneficial medicinal plants that you dig up and discard
  • Tasty recipes to make at home using weeds from your garden
  • Why many weeds have fallen out of favor in the kitchen
  • Which weeds to cultivate and which to remove from your garden immediately
  • How to make medicinal treatments from a wide variety of herbs
  • Where weeds grow and what they look like

And, of course, much, much more.

This book gives you a surprising insight into common garden weeds and tells you some interesting uses for them. While we all concentrate on growing vegetables, these 'weeds' grow for free and have a wide variety of uses in the kitchen and medicine cabinet.

Find out more today about the weeds that grow in your garden and how you can use them to your benefit!

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Non-Fiction

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Jason's Books, weeds

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Environmentally Friendly Gardening

by · March 12, 2020

Your Guide to a Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Garden

"Environmentally Friendly Gardening" is a guide to how the home gardener can become more environmentally friendly. Whether it is attracting insects, sequestering carbon or reducing your carbon impact, this book will tell you how to be eco-friendly and help the environment.

It is surprising how much of an impact gardens have on the environment, particularly this modern need for sterile environments full of artificial grass, wooden decking or carefully laid out flowers. If you think about how gardens were ten or twenty years ago, there is a singificant difference now that is not so good for insects or wildlife.

This book has been written based on the need for us all to make changes in the way we life so we are living in a more ecologically sound way. Whether this is reducing our use of plastic, using sustainable materials, or planting for insects is entirely up to you, but the more each of us can do, the more chance we have of averting an environmental crisis.

As you read this book, you will learn about all aspects of environmentally friendly gardening from creating an eco-friendly soil to planting for insects and much more. You will understand the environmental impact of a garden and what you can do to garden in a way that causes less pollution and creates a better environment in your garden.

As you read "Environmentally Friendly Gardening", you will discover:

  • What an eco-friendly garden is and why you need one
  • How to plant for insects and save declining populations of vital pollinators
  • Which insects are beneficial and how to attract them into your garden
  • Using companion planting to reduce your need for chemicals
  • Why a healthy soil ecosystem is important and how to make your soil healthy
  • Ways to reduce your carbon footprint, including making your own compost
  • That weeds can be your friends and beneficial in an eco-garden
  • How to make 'reduce, reuse, recycle' your new gardening mantra
  • Methods to reduce your use of plastics in your garden

There is a lot we can all do to make our gardens more environmentally friendly and reduce our negative impact on the environment. This book covers many different subjects and gives you a lot of ideas about what you can do in your garden.

Start gardening in a way that benefits the environment and enjoy a garden thriving with life and beauty. Environmentally friendly gardening doesn't mean a boring garden, but you can create an incredibly interesting, good looking garden that is a pleasure to sit in. Start creating your eco-garden today with "Environmentally Friendly Gardening".

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Non-Fiction

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eco-gardening, Environmentally Friendly Gardening

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Growing Brassicas

by · February 8, 2020

Your Guide to Growing Cruciferous Vegetables from Cabbage to Kale and Everything In Between

"Growing Brassicas" is an in-depth guide showing you exactly how to grow a wide variety of brassica or cruciferous vegetables at home. Whether you want to grow the common broccoli or cauliflower or the more unusual romanesco or the superfood maca.

There are a lot of vegetables in the brassica family and they have some surprising health benefits for you, plus they are really tasty! The real benefit of these vegetables for the home gardener, is that many of these are cool season plants, ideal for temperate climates and for growing over winter. They make an excellent crop to plant after the summer harvest.

This book introduces you to some of the most popular and some of the more unusual members of the brassica family. You will learn exactly how to grow each one from the ideal soil conditions through to the pests and problems facing each plant. You may be familiar with some of the vegetables in this book, but you are going to discover a few that are well worth growing ... ever grown purple or orange cauliflower?

As you read this book, you will learn everything you need to know about growing brassicas, from choosing the best varieties to grow in your area to the conditions your plants need to produce a bountiful harvest. You learn how to look after each plant, their food and watering needs plus where to position them for best results in your garden. This is an in-depth guide teaches you everything you need to know about this incredible family of vegetables.
As you read "Growing Brassicas", you will discover:

  • What are the members of the brassica family
  • What types of plant will grow where you live
  • The soil, food and water requirements for the brassicas
  • Common pests and diseases that affect brassicas and how to prevent them, including club root and wind rock
  • The health benefits of brassica vegetables, including broccoli, which deserves a special mention
  • Cooking with brassicas - lots of recipes for all the different vegetables
  • Detailed growing guides for 24 different types of brassica

And, of course, much, much more.

This book is designed to give you all the information you need to start growing brassicas at home. It is something anyone can do, whether you have a full sized garden or a balcony with space for a few pots. You will be surprised on what you can grow in limited space.

You can start growing delicious brassicas at home now. These are wonderful vegetables that have plenty of health benefits and taste delicious. This step-by-step guide teaches you everything you need. Whether you want to grow turnips, mizuna or the fiery hot wasabi, you will find the information you need in this book.

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Non-Fiction

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Growing Brassicas, Growing Broccoli, Growing Cauliflower, Growing Maca, Growing Wasabi, Jason's Books

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Berry Gardening

by · February 5, 2020

The Complete Guide to Berry Gardening from Boysenberries to Gooseberries and More

"Berry Gardening - The Complete Guide" is your in-depth guide to growing berries at home. Whether you are growing more common berries like strawberries or raspberries, or the more unusual like honeyberries or wineberries, this book tells you everything you need to know to start successfully growing berries at home.

There are lots of different types of berries and we see just a few of them in the stores. There are many more that you could grow, many of which are delicious and beneficial to you! Expensive berries such as goji berries can easily be grown at home almost anywhere in the world. Rare to find berries such as gooseberries grow well in your garden and produce a delicious crop that everyone must try, particularly the delightfully sweet purple gooseberries.

This book introduces you to many different types of berry, some of which you may be familiar with and some which may be new to you. Best of all, you discover the many different varieties of each berry, which are often far tastier than anything you can buy in the stores.

As you read this book, you will learn everything you need to know about growing berries at home from choosing plants to what conditions they need to thrive. You learn how to look after all the different types of plants from watering to feeding to soil and sun requirements, plus how to prune them so they keep producing lots of fruit every year. This in-depth book details everything you need to know to successfully grow berries.

As you read "Berry Gardening - The Complete Guide", you will discover:

  • What berry plants require to grow and produce fruit
  • All about the soil and how to make sure it is ideal for your plants
  • How to ensure your plants are pollinated and how to encourage beneficial insects into your garden
  • Pruning requirements and methods for the various berry plants
  • Propagation techniques for each berry plant so you can get more plants for free
  • How to harvest and store each type of berry for best results
  • Detailed growing guides for 24 different types of berry
  • Step-by-step guide to making jams, jellies and preserves with your berries including diabetic friendly methods
  • Lots of delicious and unusual recipes for your berry harvest

And, of course, much, much more.

This book is designed to give you all the information you need to start growing your own berries. It is something anyone can do, whether you have a full sized garden or a balcony with space for a few pots. You will be surprised on what you can grow in limited space.

You can start growing your favorite berries and enjoying delicious berries from your garden. Home grown berries taste amazing when compared to store bought berries, and they are easier to grow than you may think! In fact, you will be surprised just how big a harvest you can get, even from a small space. From bilberries to wineberries and everything in between, there is a berry plant for everyone in this book.

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Non-Fiction

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Berry Gardening, Fruit, Growing berries, Jason's Books, making jam

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Save Our Bees

by · February 5, 2020

Your Guide To Creating A Bee Friendly Environment

"Save Our Bees - Your Guide To Creating A Bee Friendly Environment" is a guide to show you what you can do to save our dwindling bee population. Over 70% of our food crops are pollinated by bees; a species that is dying out at a frightening rate. Scientists have expressed their concern that if something is not done soon to stop these pollinating insects disappearing, we will face serious, irreparable problems with the world's food supply.

Bees are an amazing species of insect; there are over 25,000 different types of bee on the planet, with over 4,000 in the USA and around 250 in the United Kingdom. Honey bees are probably the most important species of bee as it is estimated that 80% of the food eaten by an American has been pollinated by a honey bee! These 'busy bees' work tirelessly to pollinate our food yet they are losing their habitat and their natural environment as our monoculture farming expands.

There is a big movement across the Western world to save the bees and provide them with an environment that supports them. Everyone, no matter whether you live in the middle of a city or the country, can help the bees. This book is a complete guide to everything you can do for the bees from the best flowers to grow for them, to how to support them with our changing weather and much, much more. When you read this book you will understand how this docile, much mis-understood insect is the foundation stone of much of the life on Earth and why it is so important that something is done to help them.

As you read "Save Our Bees", you will discover:

  • Exactly how the bees are so important and why it is vital we help them
  • Why bees are generally completely harmless and misunderstood and feared by many people
  • The different types of bee, both social and solitary
  • How to provide bees with natural sources of food throughout the year
  • Why early season flowers are so vital for bees and ones you can grow to provide them with food
  • Which plants you must avoid growing as they are toxic to bees
  • The truth behind the myth of feeding bees sugar water and how it can threaten their survival
  • Why pesticides are so dangerous to bees and some natural, bee safe alternatives to use around your home and garden
  • How to reduce your need for chemicals through environmentally friendly companion planting
  • What city dwellers can do to help bees and a surprising fact about urban bees that few people know
  • Exactly what you need to keep bees at home if you want to become a beekeeper
  • Information and resources on creating a bee friendly neighborhood

This in-depth guide has been written to give you all the information you need to start saving our bees. It is something anyone can do no matter how big or small your garden is, or even if you do not have a garden! Bees are an amazing species of insect and you can help them now.

Working together, we can help the bees and prevent their decline. Once you have read, "Save Our Bees", you will know exactly what you can do to help the bees no matter where you live. Even now, there is something magical about sitting back on a hot summer's day, watching bees lazily fly from flower to flower. Whether you want to become a beekeeper or just plant a bee friendly garden, there is plenty you can do to help these vital insects survive.

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Non-Fiction

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bees, environment, Jason's Books

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Growing Lavender

by · July 31, 2019

The Complete Guide to Lavender

"Growing Lavender - Growing, Using, Cooking and Healing with Lavender" is your in-depth guide to the amazing lavender plant. Not only does lavender look and smell fantastic in your garden, it is an incredibly useful plant used for health, beauty and cooking.

This book gives you all the information you need to know to successfully grow lavender at home, including how to avoid the number one mistake people make that kills their new plants! You will learn all about the different varieties of lavender and find out which ones are best in the kitchen, which are best for beauty, and which are best for health and healing. There are over 450 different lavender cultivars, all of which have slightly different colored flowers, different levels of oils and more.

When you read this book, you will learn everything you need to know to grow, harvest and use lavender at home. This beautiful plant is a must have addition to every garden and is beneficial to bees and other important insects.

In "Growing Lavender", you will discover:

  • The history and origins of lavender plus the folklore associated with this plant
  • How to grow lavender at home in the ground or in containers
  • Tips and advice on caring for your lavender plants, including how to prune it for a great looking plant every year
  • The pests and diseases that can affect lavender and how to treat them
  • All about the different lavender varieties and which are best for what use
  • How to harvest and dry lavender so that it will store well
  • The many culinary uses of lavender plus some delicious recipes ... you have to try the sorbet!
  • How to use lavender as a beauty aid, including some lovely recipes to make your skin look fantastic
  • The health and healing applications of lavender, including how to safely use this plant
  • Everything you need to know about lavender oil, including some popular oil blends

Plus much, much more. This in-depth guide has been writing to tell you everything you need to know to not only grow lavender, but use it around the house. This beautiful plant has a long association with humans, and you can find out all about it and how to use.

Start growing lavender today as "Growing Lavender" explains all about this amazing plant and how it can benefit you and your home.

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Non-Fiction

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growing herbs, growing lavender, lavender

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Growing Herbs

by · July 31, 2019

"Growing Herbs - A Beginners Guide To Growing, Using, Harvesting and Storing Herbs" is for everyone who wants to grow herbs at home. Whether you are growing them to attract bees, for use in the kitchen or for their health or beauty properties, this book walks you through everything you need to know to successful grow 49 different types of herb.

There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of species of herb and plenty of varieties within that. Some are easy to grow, some are harder, but many common herbs grow wild as weeds yet have a multitude of uses that many of us have forgotten about. "Growing Herbs" is written to provide you with everything you need to know to grow 49 different herbs, harvest and store them and use them in your home.

When you read this book, you get tips, pointers and advice from a plant expert showing you how to avoid the common mistakes people make when growing herbs plus how to deal with the most commonly found problems.

"Growing Herbs - A Beginners Guide To Growing, Using, Harvesting and Storing Herbs" is packed full of information, tips and advice, including:

  • Why Grow Herbs? - understand why people grow herbs at home and the many benefits not only to you, but to our declining insect population.
  • How To Grow Herbs - a guide to growing herbs indoors, outdoors, in containers, vertically and hydroponically plus the common mistakes to avoid.
  • Starting Herbs From Seed - how to successfully germinate seeds that will lead to healthy, fully grown plants.
  • Pests and Problems - some of the common pests and problems that you will encounter when growing herbs, plus how to treat them and minimize the risk. Later in the book, you learn what specific pests and problems each herb may encounter.
  • Drying and Storing Herbs - how to dry your herbs so they will store for months, if not years, including some clever freezer techniques!
  • How to Root Cuttings - a guide to rooting cuttings for free plants or to propagate your current plants.
  • Making Herbal Mixtures - how to use your herbs for healing by making infusions, decoctions, tinctures, poultices and more.
  • Growing Instructions - step by step instructions on how to grow 49 different herbs, including how to care for them and harvest the herb.
  • Culinary Uses - detailed information on how each herb can be used in the kitchen.
  • Health Uses - traditional and modern health uses for each herb and how they can benefit your health.
  • Beauty Uses - simple yet effective beauty uses for each herb to make your skin, hair and more look fantastic.
  • Recipes - multiple delicious recipes to make in your kitchen and simple beauty recipes for every one of the herbs in the Herb Directory.

And of course, much more. This detailed guide teaches you everything you need to know to successfully grow your own herbs at home. Whether you are new to herbs or have tried to grow herbs before and want to know more, this book is for you. With everything from germinating seeds to harvesting and storing the herbs plus detailed information about every single plant, this is a complete guide to growing and using herbs.

Find out today how you can successfully grow herbs at home as "Growing Herbs - A Beginners Guide To Growing, Using, Harvesting and Storing Herbs" teaches you everything you need to know to produce a bountiful harvest of 49 different herbs at home and how to use them in the kitchen and more! Whether you are growing herbs indoors or outside, this book has the information you need to grow and use these amazing plants.

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Non-Fiction

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growing cilantro

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