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Are You Going to Scarborough Fair? All About Edible Herbs

Written on July 6, 2010 at 10:08 am
By Rebecca Christian

I wish I liked to weed as much as I like to read; it would improve my garden much more than reading about gardening, which I’ve been doing lately thanks to several books that have floated into my ken.

One is The Beginner’s Guide to Edible Herbs: 26 Herbs Everyone Should Grow & Enjoy. Bit sweeping, that subtitle–I suspect Paris Hilton would rather prance around with her dressed-up chihuahua than transplant hyssop after all danger of frost has passed. Still,  one prefers an excess of enthusiasm in a writer to the drear of a dutiful tone, and  Charles W.G. Smith is nothing if not enthusiastic about herbs. “Experiment!” he enjoins herb growers who might feel timid about branching out beyond basil and parsley for pesto, “You’ll be amazed by the pesto possibilities!”

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