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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
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.
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: