The Tui NZ Vegetable Garden

Author: Sally Margaret Cameron
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143566120
Category : Vegetable gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
The second edition of The Tui New Zealand Vegetable Garden contains all the essential gardening information you need, no matter what size garden you have. For beginners, it explains how to condition the soil, how and where to plant and harvesting tips. There is also a section on how to combat pests and diseases in order to build a healthy and thriving garden. The second edition builds on the information from the first by including new vegetable varieties and ways to cook the produce you grow, additional, up-to-date information throughout and an extensive, updated planting calendar. Chapters include: • •The Basics – building and preparing a garden and the basic life of a plant. •Garden management •A to Z of vegetables •A to Z of herbs •Problems in your garden – insects and pests, weeds and fungal diseases •Garden diary •Updated and extensive regional calendar

Edible Backyard

Author: Kath Irvine
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 0143775561
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
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.

Yates Vegetable Garden

Author: Rachel Vogan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869509286
Category : Herb gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
This is a new book in the phenomenally popular Yates series of books. Practical and accessible and highly illustrated, and will be suitable for gardeners of all skill levels.

Companion Planting in New Zealand

Author: Brenda Little
Publisher: White Cloud Books
ISBN: 9781990003783
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this age of increasing hostility towards chemical control of the food we eat, this book is the ideal guide to working with nature. Every tip in this book has worked for somebody - why it worked may be a mystery, but the result of a healthy crop is the greatest reward for a gardener.

Abundant Garden

Author: Niva Kay
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1761061437
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
Home gardening the natural way. Niva and Yotam Kay of Pakaraka Permaculture, on the Coromandel Peninsula of Aotearoa New Zealand, share their long experience of organic gardening in this comprehensive book on how to create and maintain a productive and regenerative vegetable garden. Taking care of the soil life and fertility provides plants with what they need to thrive. This is grounded in the latest scientific research on soil health, ecological and regenerative practices. Vegetable gardening, in this way, repeatedly demonstrates that every loved garden bed can produce high-yielding, resilient, nourishing and delicious vegetables year after year. The Abundant Garden has simple, reliable strategies and techniques to help maximise your ability to feed yourself and share the abundance with those around you. With information on growing a wide variety of vegetables, there are also helpful charts to help you plan and plant your garden year-round. In addition there are details on how to grow microgreens, and great recipes for ferments, preserves and pickles to stock the pantry with your garden's bounty.

Yates Month by Month

Author: Judy Horton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869509804
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
A month-by-month, easy-to-follow guide on what to do - and when - in your garden from the number one trusted name in gardening products, Yates. With clearly set out and easy-to-follow monthly tips and planting guides for each major Australasian climatic zone, YATES MONTH BY MONTH will see you safely through the gardening year. Plan your garden with confidence, discover the best plants for your region and see the benefits of all your hard work as you harvest and enjoy the results of a well-planned garden.

Organic Vegetable Gardening

Author: Xanthe White
Publisher: Godwit
ISBN: 9781869621551
Category : Organic gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Vegetable gardening is big again. Here's a book that takes readers by the hand and shows them how to go from backyard bombsite to organic Garden of Eden in one year. Author Xanthe White, New Zealand landscape-design star, documents a year in the garden she built from scratch in a rundown inner-city backyard, inspiring readers to realise that they can do it too. With a chapter for each month of the year, Xanthe's monthly diary inspires and confides, and her guides to sowing, planting, pests and diseases, making compost, mulching and more make it so easy for beginners to follow - and get fabulous results and great crops. There's plenty for experienced gardeners here, too. Xanthe's tips, techniques and infectious enthusiasm will get even the most seasoned gardeners wanting to try some new ideas. Most of all, she demystifies organics and makes it so easy to agree that this is the only way you should garden. Studded with great informational photographs, this book carves out new and unique territory that sets it apart from other gardening books. It is an inspirational and practical guide.

Yates Garden Guide ANZ Edition

Author: Angie Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781460759554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544

Book Description
Our bestselling practical gardening book fully revised and updated. This new edition of the ever popular Yates Garden Guide has been fully revised and updated to help today's gardeners tame big backyards, create stylish retreats, tend productive and decorative plantings, and get the most out of smaller spaces. With chapters on planning gardens, choosing decorative plants, growing trees, shrubs, fruit, vegetables and lawns, the new Yates Garden Guide provides details on more than 1000 exotic and native plants, advice on soils, climate, planting, feeding and maintaining gardens, and comprehensive problem-solving charts help you identify and deal with all kinds of pests and diseases. Sections on water-saving gardens, community gardens, keeping chooks, encouraging bees, growing native plants, kitchen gardens and keeping healthy indoor plants have been expanded and updated to cater for modern living arrangements, in apartments and smaller spaces, with increased awareness of the goodness of homegrown and environmentally friendly growing. Full of comprehensive, reliable and practical gardening advice for old hands and keen beginners, Yates Garden Guide is the essential companion for every gardener.

Contemporary Gardens of New Zealand

Author: Carol Bucknell
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143566946
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
Author Carol Bucknell and photographer Sally Tagg have travelled the length of New Zealand to capture more than twenty of our most impressive and interesting modern garden designs. The result is Contemporary Gardens of New Zealand, a stunningly photographed book celebrating some of the best contemporary gardens our country has to offer. With gardens ranging in style from cutting-edge minimalism to landscaping as architecture, Contemporary Gardens of New Zealand offers you the experience and enjoyment of a garden trail, all from the comfort of your own home.

The Tui NZ Flower Garden

Author: Rachel Vogan
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143565536
Category : Flower gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
As well as an A - Z section on NZ flowers covering plant care and maintenance, the book includes sections on: - choosing the right flowers for the right place - annuals, bulbs, perennials, roses, climbers, natives and wild flowers - edible flowers, flowers for fragrance, flowers for children - flowers to attract birds, flowers for drying, flowers for weddings and flowers for remembrance - tips for flower arranging - a flower colour guide There is also a seasonal Garden Diary that outlines what needs to be done in the garden at which time to create a stunning flower garden.