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Updated and expanded, with over 40 new herbs covered. It is clear and concise, goes in to considerable detail on the culinary and medicinal uses and gives easy to follow instructions if you want to cultivate your own. Called a genius little book by jamie oliver, it is compact handy a to z guide listing over 300 varieties of herbs that we grow at jekkas. Jekkas herb farm is a unique combination of sustainable nursery and herbetum, home to the largest. Jekka mcvicar at kilgraney house and herb gardens carlow. She has oft graced our screens on gardening programmes and also alongside food worthies such as rick stein and jamie oliver. Jamie oliver on the previous edition the complete herb book is a comprehensive az guide to the fascinating world of herbs, providing practical information on each herb s organic growing requirements, use, mythical properties and historical background. Its a gorgeous book and jekka uses the term herb in its widest sense, covering medicinal, culinary and other uses. With reference to jekkas complete herb book jamie has said jekkas is a musthave book for everyone who loves gardening and cooking, im her biggest fan. Each herb is whats exciting and clever about what jekka has done with this book is that shes focused on a hitlist, her top50 cooking herbs of all time, and gives you delicious and exciting ways of using them. The dripfeed system at her south gloucestershire nursery, jekkas herb farm, isnt functioning properly, plus shes coping with a bad knee. Jekka mcvicars herb garden for hospice the splendid table. Jekka mcvicar on how to plant your own herb garden food.
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