The Edible Backyard: A Practical Guide to Growing Organic Fruit & Vegetables All Year Round

Our favourite step-by-step to a beautiful low-work, highly-productive edible backyard.

Written by Kath Irvine

$50.00

Available on back-order

Gardening expert Kath Irvine’s guide to everything you need to know to grow organic vegetables, fruit and herbs in your own garden, all through the year.

In this practical step-by-step guide, gardening teacher Kath Irvine shares her wealth of knowledge from more than 20 years of helping Kiwi gardeners design, build, grow and maintain their own productive edible gardens. Kath’s sage, hands-on, often humorous advice steps readers through everything they need to know to grow great produce at home, including garden design, tools and equipment, seasonal planting advice, soil fertility, seed-saving basics, managing pests and diseases, and how to incorporate organic and permaculture gardening methods into any home garden.

While documenting a year on her own property, Kath shows how you can successfully produce bountiful crops throughout the seasons to provide a steady, daily harvest with minimal wastage. The book is illustrated with hundreds of stunning photographs and helpful hand-drawn illustrations that share clever design concepts and planting plans for gardens of all shapes and sizes.

Kath is the perfect guide, and this easy-to-understand, comprehensive book is ideal for gardeners at any skill level, from beginners setting up a new garden from scratch, to intermediate trouble-shooters, to advanced green-thumbs seeking deeper knowledge.

You’ll learn

DESIGN
Set your veggie gardens, fruit and chooks up for a strong beginning with my simple take on the permaculture design process.

LAY A STRONG FOUNDATION
Become a soil-building champion, forage for fertility, learn natural pest and disease management, winning ways with weeds and how to plant in guilds.

BUILD
Greenhouse, berryhouse, chookhouse, no dig veggie beds, perennial companions and set up the orchard with Kath Irvine’s practical ways.

GROW
Tools, raising seedlings and simple seed saving, watering how to’s, crop rotation, greencrops and the easiest compost in the world.

KNOW YOUR CROPS
The lowdown on timing, sowing and growing for vegetable crops plus Kath’s favourite perennial vegetables, herbs, nuts, fruit and a few berries too.

MONTH BY MONTH
My monthly growing guide in the veggie patch, greenhouse and orchard to bring you a steady, daily harvest with ease.

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