The Organic Guide To Edible Gardens

Synopsis

The perfect guide for both novice and experienced gardeners, with step-by-step information and photography.</p> Growing fruit and vegetables in your own backyard, and feeding your family with food freshly harvested can be extremely rewarding. Better still is knowing that you can do it all without the use of chemicals, just as nature intended.</p> <i>The Organic Guide to Edible Gardens</i> is a fully illustrated step-by-step guide to growing authentic produce at homefrom purchasing your first seedlings, understanding the growth cycle, sourcing biological fertilisers, controlling pests and diseases and ultimately sustaining healthy, organic edible plants.</p> As our modern lifestyles take us further away from traditional environments, <i>The Organic Guide to Edible Gardens</i> will bring you and your family closer to the natural world.</p> Jennifer Stackhouse began her horticultural career at Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens. She writes regularly for a number of Australian newspapers, including the Sydney Morning Herald, and is the editor of the ABC Gardening Australia magazine. Debbie McDonald is the horticultural editor at ABC Gardening Australia.