100 Herbs to Grow by Jekka McVicar

Jekka McVicar has spent forty years growing herbs — over 500 varieties — and this book distills that lifetime of knowledge into a practical, authoritative guide for anyone who wants to grow their own.

100 Herbs to Grow focuses on the herbs worth your time: easy to grow, genuinely useful in the kitchen, and with real medicinal value. Jekka covers everything from garden beds and containers to growing from seed, propagation, division, cuttings, harvesting, and year-round maintenance. She also draws on four decades of watching climate, pests, and disease affect herb growing — so the advice here is current, not just classic.

Beyond the growing, each herb comes with historical context, culinary uses, and medicinal properties, so you actually know what to do with what you've grown.

What's covered:

• 100 of the most productive, flavorful, and useful herbs
• Growing methods for gardens, containers, and from seed
• Propagation, division, cuttings, and yearly maintenance
• Jekka's personal variety recommendations — including cultivars she developed herself
• Culinary and medicinal uses for every herb
• Historical notes and growing anecdotes from 40+ years in the field

Endorsed by Jamie Oliver, Monty Don, and Nathan Outlaw. A book that earns its place on the shelf — and gets used.