Dan Pearson’s Guide to Growing Herbs

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

  • About

If you are going to tarry a while in these pages, you’ll need fresh herbs. If you live in a big city, then you will have no trouble buying them; but if you live halfway up Mount Snowdon, then clearly your best bet is to grow them yourself.

Method

A confession. I’m rubbish at gardening – brown fingers, that’s me. I’m also pretty ignorant (although if I don’t know what something is called, I tend to inform everyone in my most authoritative voice that it is a lobelia). And I’m a chronic arachnophobe, which tends to keep me out of much of the garden at the best of times. But even I have had some success at growing herbs. And there is nothin