The Edible Backyard

Available from all good booksellers

Step-by-step to a beautiful, low-work, highly-productive edible backyard.

Chapter 1: Design Set your veggie gardens, fruit and chooks up for a strong beginning with my simple take on the permaculture design process.

Chapter 2: Build Greenhouse, berryhouse, chookhouse, no dig veggie beds, perennial companions and set up the orchard with my practical ways.

Chapter 3: Lay a strong foundation Become a soil-building champion, forage for fertility, learn natural pest and disease management, winning ways with weeds and how to plant in guilds.

Chapter 4: Managing pests and disease Build a strong, healthy diverse garden and you'll have way less pests and disease plus simple solutions.

Chapter 5: Grow Tools, raising seedlings and simple seed saving, watering how to’s, crop rotation, greencrops and the easiest compost in the world.

Chapter 6: Know your crops The lowdown on timing, sowing and growing for vegetable crops plus my favourite perennial vegetables, herbs, nuts, fruit and a few berries too.

Chapter 7: Month by month My monthly growing guide in the veggie patch, greenhouse and orchard to bring you a steady, daily harvest with ease.