Jekka's Complete Herb Book

I bought this book for my husbands's birthday because he wanted to start using more herbs in the cooking he enjoys doing now he's retired. Read all the reviews and it seemed like the best of the lot and I can confirm that in our opinion it certainly it. Tells you absolutely everything you'd ever want to know about every herb, for cooking, medicinal and growing etc. in such simple language and great pictures. Can't reommend it highly enough, it really is an enjoyable book to browse, very interesting and informative. Don't bother looking further, Jekka McVicars got the herb business sown up !

I found this book just what I wanted, very informative it’s like an encyclopaedia for herbal type plants with photos - how the plants grow, what they can be used for etc . It also has some garden layout ideas.

Present for my mum

...and I have loads! I am a landscaper and keen gardener so I felt I had seen the best of the best when it came to books on plants and gardening for work and pleasure. How wrong I was. This is an amazing book with exciting, funny, sometimes mythical and truly well laid out information on our herbs; cultivated and wild. Forget Alan Titmarsh and the other green fingered bores of the World. Jekka McVicar is a gardener with passion and personality. What a laugh she would be to have in the garden with me!

I purchased this book in preparation to setting up a small kitchen herb garden.I have limited space and wanted to grow a number of different herbs to use in my cooking. Previously I have had to use a kitchen window sill with limited success.

The book contains all info. However the Kew book is beautifully illustrated and more compact ( having seen it now ) , I regret not buying that one.

Jekka's Complete Herb Book really is about as complete as it gets. It covers pretty much all cultivated varieties plus many species that grow wild in the British Isles. 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. Look no further for a book on herbs, this is the one.

A wonderful book and so useful for the novice herb gardener. I now have four 6' by 6' herb plots which are doing really well. I'm working on year-round herbs but now have an abundant supply for around 8 months - haven't needed to buy any salad greens for a long time.Also been lucky enough to visit Jekka's herb farm (open days most bank holidays in Spring & Summer) and have some of her plants growing in my garden (definitely superior to those purchased from our local garden centre).

After hearing reviews online that this was the best comprehensive book for herbs, I bought this used for my Dad for Christmas since it’s out of print. It was very well-received and worth the price and shipping time! I got a second book but this one quickly became the fave, it has great tips and overall info. We got more for culinary herbs than medicinal so can’t speak to that side of things. Arrived in good condition :)

Love this beautiful book.

good. Just as advertized, arrived punctually and was as stated on site a a a a a a a a a

Beautiful pictures which help yo identify the herbs. Very well written information on the history of each herb and how it is used. There is an excellent section on herb cultivation.