The Edible Backyard

A Practical Guide to Growing Organic Fruit and Vegetables All Year Round

Author: Kath Irvine

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From Gardening Expert & Creator of Edible Backyard

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.

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Summary

From Gardening Expert & Creator of Edible Backyard

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.

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.

About the Author

Kath Irvine is the creator of Edible Backyard and a passionate permaculture expert, who has designed, taught and managed food gardens for more than 20 years, successfully feeding her own family of six from her 0.4ha garden in Ohau on the Kapiti Coast along the way. Kath's articles, books, garden consultations and workshops help people create and maintain smart, well-designed gardens that save time, money and the planet. Spray free, natural, low-input food gardens are Kath's thing. She believes in a daily serve of fresh-picked organic greens for a happy mind and strong body, and her dream is that every New Zealander can have this.

Product Details

Publisher

Random House New Zealand Ltd | Godwit

Published

14th September 2021

Pages

352

ISBN

9780143775560

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS

10 Mar, 2025

best gardening book ever, and I have a lot, detailed, structured, great job
By Matt

19 Dec, 2022

Fantastic
By Marylyn

17 Oct, 2022

Useful
Timely
Practical
By Dianne

29 Jun, 2022

We can't stop picking it up and reading it. So wonderful to have such a helpful resource on hand answering all our home gardener questions with N.Z seasons in mind :)
By Jo

01 Mar, 2022

Great detail, my every question answered! Love the vibe of the book.
By Jocelyn

16 Feb, 2022

Brilliant book. Highly recommended for beginner to experienced gardeners. Very informative and usable. I absolutely love it.
By Jill

03 Feb, 2022

Great book, just what I was expecting.
By Chris

03 Jan, 2022

Great
By Tania

25 Oct, 2021

Wonderful detail. Full of great tried and tested gardening tips and advice.
By Megan

25 Oct, 2021

Love this book. Very informative, covers a lot of areas that I wanted to understand more, e.g no dig gardening, good pointers on design and opened my eyes to mulching for soil fertility.Great month by month section near the end telling me what to sow/plant when. Full of tips and encouragement.
By Marg

25 Oct, 2021

I'm an experienced gardener and wondered if it was worth getting this book, but it certainly was. Kath Irvine provides wonderful advice for growing vegetables, both for newbies and those who think they know what they're doing. She's encouraging and sensible and the book is well laid out. I'm particularly impressed by the section on growing different types of vegetables. Good timing with spring planting underway - I'm going back to it again and again.
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