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Spacing between herbs plants such as chives, parsley and dill should be at least a foot. You will also need plant pots to transplant the seedlings and some more compost. Picking the right seeds, designing your herb garden both indoors and outdoors, garden maintenance, pest control, drying and storing your herbs, and much more. If you are market gardening or farming, whatever your scale, we guarantee youll find valuable information. Witting entrepreneurs that have identified gaps in their local market and looked beyond runofthemill tomatoes or salad greens that saturate the market, are.
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