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One Magic Square: Grow Your Own Food on One Square Metre

Lolo Houbein 2008

With this Australian book you can start by following the various plot layouts for 1m2 and add more plots as your time and space allow. Choose from plots to grow: salads, broad beans, anti-oxidants, curry, beans, stir-fry, root crops, pasta/pizza, Aztec, peas, melons, pumpkins and others. An excellent book for new gardeners for year round food production in temperate climates; it also covers crop rotation, companion planting, pest control and brief descriptions of how to grow and use many common vegetables and herbs. 357pp

BO111 $45.00 

 


Jackie French's Top 10 Vegetables    

There are few strangers in Jackie French's selection of vegetables, but her thoughts on growing and preparing these vegetables are both delectable and entertaining, and kind to our stomachs as well as the environment. 162 pp

Beans, cauliflower (and other brassicas), carrots, Corn, Lettuce, Onions, Peas, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Tomatoes

BJ102 $16.00

 


Perennial Vegetables: A Gardener’s Guide to over 100 Delicious Easy-to-grow Edibles

Eric Toensmeier  (USA)  2007

Learn how to raise, tend, harvest and cook with plants that are not often written about in other books. Good coverage of, but not limited to tropical edibles: taro, malabar spinach, cassava, breadfruit, horseradish tree, sweet potato, choko, aerial potato. Full colour, 241pp

BP128 $60.00

 


 Tropical Food Gardens: A Guide to  Growing Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables in Tropical and Sub-tropical Climates
Leonie Norrington 2001
This excellent book is written in an informative, conversational style that is engaging and funny. Beautiful hand-painted graphics accompany the witty prose. This is easily the best book we have come across for northern gardeners.
BT100 $35.00


The Edible Heirloom Garden

The Edible Salad Garden

Rosalind Creasy 1999 (USA)

Beautiful full colour books that will inspire and delight any vegetable gardener! They are informative, well written with growing descriptions on a wide range of vegetables and yummy recipes to maximise the use of the harvest.

BE109 Edible Heirloom $17.00

 

BE110 Edible Salad $17.00

 


The Edible Rainbow Garden

Rosalind Creasy 1999 (USA)

Beautiful full colour books that will inspire and delight any vegetable gardener! They are informative, well written with growing descriptions on a wide range of vegetables and yummy recipes to maximise the use of the harvest.

BE113 Edible Rainbow Garden $17.00

 

Book Special with seeds included


Australian Vegetable Garden
Clive Blazey 1999

How to grow a year’s supply of food in just 43 m2 of bed space is only one of the features of this book. Information not found easily anywhere else is included, such as, days to harvest and yield for every one of the 200 vegetables covered. 126pp full colour.
BA104 $30.00
Temporarily unavailable - due late October

Storey’s Country Wisdom Bulletins are 32 page booklets packed with practical information, hands-on instructions, innovative ideas and creative projects.

 

All the Onions

Betty Jacobs (USA)

Covers where & how to plant chives, garlic, onions, leeks, potato onions, shallots and welsh onions.

BA114 $7.00

 


Garlic and Friends                       

Penny Woodward  1996

An encyclopaedic reference covering not only the well-known garlic, onions, leeks, chives and shallots but also the lesser known welsh onion, elephant garlic, rakkyo, ramsons, potato and tree onions. Included is detailed information on cultivation, plant descriptions, culinary uses, health remedies and much more. 268pp  Hardcover

BG102 $35.00


Tomatoes for Everyone: A Practical Guide To Growing Tomatoes All Year Round  

Allen Gilbert   1997

All you wanted to know about tomato growing in one great book. Takes you from starting your own seed or purchased seedlings right through to harvesting and storing. Over 100 varieties are described in an easy to use chart format. 142pp full colour 

BT106  $33.00


Asian Herbs and Vegetables: How To Identify, Grow and Use Them In Australia  

Penny Woodward 2000

This beautifully presented book provides a description, cultivation and use for dozens of plants used predominately in Asian cuisine. Although many originate from the tropics, most of the plants can be grown in coastal Australia. 146pp full colour

BA100 $27.50

 

 

Please note a wide range of books on vegetable growing is available under the Organic Gardening section including:

 

Organic Vegetable Gardening 

Best of Jackie French: A practical guide to everything from aphids to zucchini chocolate cake

 

 

 

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