Gardening > Fruit/Vegetable

In a world where mass-produced food often lacks taste and freshness, more and more people are growing their own vegetables This new edition of Annette McFarlane's gardening classic offers gardeners an authoritative and comprehensive guide to growing an extensive range of organic vegetables. As well as outlining the basics - how to plan your garden and prepare soil, make compost, develop a planting guide, propagate, and sow and germinate seeds - it offers a mass of new and exciting material. 'Garden to Gourmet' explains how to grow ... read more

Growing fruit and vegetables in your own backyard, and feeding your family with food freshly harvested can be extremely rewarding. This is a guide to growing authentic produce at home - from purchasing your first seedlings, understanding the growth cycle, sourcing biological fertilisers, controlling pests and sustaining healthy, organic plants.

As a 6-year-old, Don Burke started his own vegetable garden under the watchful eye of his father and grandfather. Now Don is known as Australia's foremost authority on all things gardening. This title covers all that you need to know to start and cultivate your own vegetable garden, including composting, pests, disease and more.

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A visual feast of more than 500 colour photographs; features a range of kitchen garden designs, from classical to modern, and includes practical lists of suitable plants for kitchen gardens, including heirloom and rare varieties. Showcases some of the most beautiful kitchen gardens and potagers of France, America, Australia and the UK.

Fabian Capomolla and Mat Pember run a successful business installing edible gardens: in polystyrene boxes on balconies, in crates you can put anywhere in your backyard, or by creating no-dig, raised garden beds. After years of helping clients set up spaces to grow their own fruit and vegetables they believe anyone can create their own little edible garden, in almost any area. And in this easy-to-use guide they show you how simple it is! Fundamentals such as soil, climate, watering, composting, worm farms, saving and sowing seeds, a... read more

Specially adapted for the Australian Market Grow Something to Eat Every Day

Growing fruit at home is a delicious and altogether more enjoyable alternative to buying it in the shops. Mark Diacono offers a practical and accessible guide to making the most of your garden and what it has to offer. The first part of the book is an A-Z of the different varieties of fruit, with old favourites like apples, cherries, plums, blackcurrants, white currants, redcurrants, strawberries, blueberries, gooseberries, raspberries and rhubarb as well as more exotic species like figs, grapes, cranberries, Japanese wine berries ... read more

One hundred years ago there were more than 5 000 varieties of tomatoes. The tomatoes we eat today are the most altered fresh food we serve. The original tomato that arrived in Europe 400 years ago, the Pomodoro (or Golden Apple) has become large, red, and gained the highest dissatisfaction rating of any vegetable. However, after eighteen years of trialling hundreds of heirloom tomatoes Clive Blazey provides detailed portraits of over sixty tomatoes and twenty heirloom potatoes, peppers, eggplants and other edible solanums in his ... read more

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Ever been confronted by a couple of unpromising-looking tomatoes and some of yesterday's bread, with nothing else for supper? In "The Big Red Book of Tomatoes", Lindsey Bareham will turn them into a delectable dinner for one. And, if you are a gardener, next time you are stuck with a load of tomatoes that won't ripen, why not try Lindsey's mouth-watering green tomato tart with zabaglione cream? In this lively, inspirational book, with a stunning collection of over 400 recipes, the fruit we like to eat as a vegetable is given the st... read more

From strawberries to salad leaves, this title gives you practical tips and guidance on how to get started, care for your crops and combat pests to guarantee success. It also includes step-by-step photographs, checklists and charts that ensures that you stay on the right track all year round.

Herbs are the most liberating and confidence-boosting of ingredients: grow some and you feel like a proper gardener, bring some into the kitchen and you feel like a proper cook. They allow you to experiment and bring individuality to your cooking while, at the same time, anchoring you in sound culinary tradition because herbs are often responsible for those key flavours that 'make' a dish. Not only that but they are a step on the road to a more self-sufficient, homegrown, organic way of eating. In the first part of the book, Nikki ... read more

Like the idea of the self-sufficient good life? "Grow Your Own Vegetables" presents an informative and user-friendly guide to realizing your garden's potential. Opening with the persuasive case for growing your own vegetables - from reducing your carbon footprint to improving your health and bank balance - the book goes on to present concise instructions on how to cultivate a successful and satisfying vegetable garden, ending with a comprehensive directory of vegetables, including how and when to grow and harvest, storage advice an... read more

An essential resource for all Australian and New Zealand gardeners who care about their family's health and the environment. Organic gardening is a way of leaving your patch of earth in a better condition than you found it by working with nature rather than against it. A practicable and better alternative to chemical-dependent and environmentally unsustainable cultivation practices, organic gardening prevents soil damage, and results in more nutritious food, and fewer contaminated waterways and poison-resistant pests. Written by ... read more

For tasty, delicious fruit and veg that hasn't travelled half way around the world, you can't beat home-grown produce from your own vegie patch. Here's how to ensure your plot provides fresh, healthy food all year round. Easy-to-follow advice on what to do in your vegie patch and how to do it. Pick up time-saving tips and techniques on everything from pruning to dealing with pests. There's clear guidance on when to sow, plant, and harvest for excellent results. Completely and authoritatively adapted for Australian conditions and Au... read more

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Covering most of the popular edibles plus many general hints on growing your own food this full colour guide is an inspiration. The author has years of experience tending gardens down under and all the advice is aimed at our climate and growing conditions.

A comprehensive, practical guide to organic gardening that explains and illustrates all the key organic principles and covers vegetables, fruit, ornamental plants, herbs and container gardening. This title has been fully adapted for the Australian market, sports a gorgeous new, locally-designed jacket, and includes the following: step-by-step sequences and specially commissioned photographs that show all the key techniques, making them easy to follow and apply to your own plot - from soil preparation, seed sowing, and harvesting to... read more

In this fantastic book, completely revised and updated, you'll learn the secrets to growing your own fabulous, fresh produce using the gardener's inheritance - heirloom vegetables. Tastier, more diverse and producing higher yields than commercially grown varieties, these vegetables are the best to grow in any vegetable garden. Clive Blazey has collected practical information and expert advice on cultivation and growing tips so that you can get started growing your own totally edible garden from heirloom varieties. The Australian Ve... read more