VEGETABLE GROWING   ONLINE SHOP Clicking on the add barrow button will add a book to your shopping barrow, to view the barrow or remove items, simply click here or on the VIEW BARROW link at the top of the page.   Vegetables Growing Guide Plant a Vegetable Garden! Stefan Mager This guide introduces 68 delicious vegetables that can easily be grown to provide fresh and nutritious food from the home garden at little cost. Information on what to grow, where and when is provided in a compact, table format that gardeners both novice and experienced will find easy to use. It’s a ready reference for germination times, days to harvest, sowing depth and plant spacing. In addition there are sections on Moon and companion planting, as well as compost making and soil structure. This fold-out guide has 8 x A4 pages and its glossy finish means it can be wiped clean after use in the garden or potting shed. BV104 $12.00 add 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  add   See also Fabulous Food: From Every Small Garden Homegrown Whole Grains - Grow, Harvest and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and More Sara Pitzer 2009 (USA) Learn to grow, harvest, store, grind, and cook with whole grains including wheat, corn, barley, buckwheat, millet, oats, rice, rye, spelt, and quinoa. It’s surprisingly easy, and it takes less space than you might imagine. There is a detailed chapter on each grain, covering types, yield, growing instructions, potential problems and recipes. Buckwheat pretzels sound yummy as does Peppers Stuffed with Quinoa and Black Beans. This book is from the USA, so measurements are imperial and resources listed are USA, but the information and advice is broadly applicable. A practical manual for small-scale grain-growing. 168pp BH120 $25.00 add 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 Beans, cauliflower (and other brassicas), carrots, Corn, Lettuce, Onions, Peas, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Tomatoes BJ102 $17.00 add   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 add    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 add 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 add 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 add 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 add Please note a wide range of books on vegetable growing is available under the Organic Gardening section including: Organic Vegetable Gardening  Best of Jackie French: A practical guide to everything from aphids to zucchini chocolate cake   See also: Asian Herbs and Vegetables: How to Identify, Grow and Use Them in Australia     Copyright © 2001 - 2010 Green Harvest No part of this website may be reproduced without permission of the owner