Gardening

In today's world, recycling becomes more important every year. This book tells you how to recycle everything organic in your home and garden, and how to use the compost to produce luscious vegetables and stunning flowers.

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Give your home a burst of colour. All the practical advice, tips, and guidance you need to grow, care for, and display every kind of indoor plant, from climbers to cacti. Choose your plants with the help of the visual index. Follow the easy-care advice to keep your plants happy and healthy. Create stylish displays to show off your plants effectively.

A companion volume to "The Small Edible Garden". Knowing what to do when is crucial for gardeners wanting healthy home produce. Whether it is sowing, planting, feeding, or pruning, harvesting or storing, the keys to successful vegetable and fruit growing are to carry out tasks correctly and at the wrong time. Creating an edible garden doesn't take a lot of money and effort. Once you have space for growing, you can get started with some basic tools and seedlings or seeds. You can grow edibles in an extensive raised garden, or simply... read more

Whatever the size of your garden, this book provides simple, practical advice on the most efficient way to use a limited space to grow healthy organic produce. Includes tips on planting, growing and caring for a wide variety of vegetables, herbs and fruit, including the best available varieties for each.

A practical, comprehensive and highly illustrated guide to planting and maintaining a vegetable garden for the novice to the experienced gardener. The Tui New Zealand Vegetable Garden contains all the essential information you need, from how to condition the soil, how and where to plant, sprouting schedules to what kind of yield to expect from each plant variety, and harvesting tips. There is also a section on how to combat pests and diseases in order to build a healthy and thriving garden - whether yours is of the raised bed varie... read more

One of gardening's greatest pleasures is growing herbs & using them fresh from your garden. Ginny Clayton shows you how in this handbook for the modern herb grower. From culinary herbs such as Thai basil and French tarragon to herbs for healing, including comfrey and chamomile, Ginny describes how to propagate, raise and maintain over 60 herbs using organic growing methods. There are tips on how to plan your kitchen herb garden, companion planting, which herbs to plant to attract bees, and which ones repel insect pests. Also includ... read more

"Wally's Gardening and Health" explains the importance of healthy soil, teeming with soil life along with earthworms for successful gardening. It also explains the importance of the 114 known minerals and elements and how to apply them to your gardens; which also makes for very healthy plants.The reader is given simple methiods to grow nutritious vegetables, fruiting plants and trees, even if you lack room for actual gardens. It is well known that consuming raw fruit and vegetable will provide your body with the most health benefit... read more

New Zealand's benign climate creates superb growing conditions for flowers, fruit and vegetables, so it's no wonder that Kiwis love to turn their garden into a slice of paradise. Now gardening enthusiasts will be able to pick up Dennis Greville's highly practical gardening book and find some instant improvement they can make to their garden. The text was previously published by Harper Collins in 1995 but has been fully updated, and now comes with the author's exquisite colour photography throughout. The book is structured around... read more

Lumps on your lemons? Daffodils refusing to flower? Hebes turning yellow? If you have a gardening problem, look no further. In The New Zealand Plant Doctor Andrew Maloy has compiled answers to the most common problems gardeners face, which he has assembled from years of experience answering readers' questions in his popular 'Plant Doctor' column for Weekend Gardener magazine. He offers sound and practical advice on eradicating disease, pest and weed control, spraying, feeding and more. From organic remedies to approved chemicals, A... read more

This practical reference book comes complete with an introduction and index and is laid out with full colour illustrations. It gives information on choosing plants, landscaping, using the plants as bedding plants or for borders, soil preparation and aftercare.

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: A brand new addition to the growing range of Palmers gardening handbooks for beginner gardeners, aimed at de-mystifying and simplifying many aspects of growing fruit trees in the home garden. An introductory section provides information on best locations and soils, routine maintenance, pests, diseases, pruning and propagation. The comprehensive A-Z guide gives straightforward advice on the best varieties of each type of fruit to choose for your particular conditions, including problems to look out for, when to prune and when to ... read more

Continuing with our successful titles in the Tui family this practical, highly illustrated guide has been written specifically for the young gardener. It contains all the essential information you need to start a garden plus information on the most popular plants young gardeners might like to cultivate. There are also sections on protecting your plants, how to design a garden, what tools are needed as well as combating pests and diseases. Recipes using your produce are also included as well as crafts, trivia and key tips. A handy p... read more

Having a backyard garden just got a lot easier! Framed raised beds and a modular approach to growing vegetables means more production in less space and with less work. Whether you live on a small city lot or a multi-acre country estate, this book has something for you. Nones shows you how to set up the raised-bed modular system and then gives in-depth descriptions of all gardening procedures: sowing seeds, thinning, transplanting, cultivating, mulching, watering, harvesting, pest control, composting, crop rotation, and seed saving.... read more

The Tui NZ Fruit Garden provides practical, highly illustrated information on how to grow your own fruit and nuts, whether you plan to plant a few containers on your balcony or want to develop a full home orchard. Author Sally Cameron, in conjunction with a panel of industry experts, explains the five steps to successful fruit gardening: planning, preparation, planting, care and maintenance, and harvesting your produce. The Tui NZ Fruit Garden includes 58 common and more exotic fruit and nuts suitable for growing in New Zealand ga... read more

This is the essential guide to growing plants in small spaces, indoors and out. Dress up your patio with flowers, create your own vegetable patch on a balcony or bring impact and style to your conservatory with "RHS How to Grow Plants in Pots". Packed with exciting ideas for design and practical growing tips, plants have been organised by growing conditions and key qualities to direct you to just what you need. Troubleshoot any problems that you may encounter using the handy help section and find solutions for common plant diseases... read more

Gardening is one of the mega-trends occurring globally with most people making their first foray into gardening with a vegetable and herb garden. This is a new book in the phenomenally popular Yates series of books. Practical and accessible and highly illustrated, it is suitable for gardeners of all skill levels. In addition to information on growing over 50 types of vegetables and 30 herbs, the Yates Vegetable Garden also includes: Building a garden; Gardening in containers; Soils, compost and worms; Organics and companion... read more

Best-selling author Annette McFarlane takes on organic fruit growing in a companion book to her enduring classic ORGANIC VEGETABLE GARDENING. In this practical, no-fail guide,

Dennis Greville is respected internationally for his plant and garden photography and is New Zealand's most published gardening author and photographer. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned gardener, growing year round will encourage and inspire you, with practical advice that will help you achieve optimum results in your garden, whatever its size, climatic conditions and soil type. Dennis provides readily accessible information and tips on how to do things better. These easy to follow ideas will enable you to take charge of yo... read more