POSTED: 12 JULY 2010

Major update for a kitchen garden classic*

Annette McFarlane has completely revised and updated her bestselling classic, Organic Vegetable Gardening, with new material on heirloom and exotic vegetables, mushrooms, edible flowers and weeds, container gardening and seed saving.

In a world where mass-produced food often lacks taste and freshness, more and more people are growing their own vegetables.

In this new edition, she offers gardeners an authoritative and comprehensive guide to growing an extensive range of organic vegetables, as well as outlining the basics — how to plan your garden and prepare soil, make compost, develop a planting guide, propagate, and sow seeds and achieve germination.

She explains how to grow Australian bush food, and the herbs and spices that give the unique character to the cuisines of China, Greece, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand and India.

For gardeners with not much room to move, there is also a new chapter on growing a large range of vegetables in containers.

There are extensive instructions on how to grow more than 115 vegetables in the ‘A for Amaranth Spinach to Z for Zucchini’ section, including heaps of new information on Asian greens and cabbages and unusual vegetables.

Annette McFarlane lectures in horticulture and is a regular contributor to a range of gardening publications, including the ABC’s Organic Gardener magazine. She presents Gardening Talkback on ABC Radio in Brisbane and is the author of two other books on gardening.

*Based on media release issued by HarperCollins.

Annette McFarlane... offers gardeners an authoritative and comprehensive guide to growing an extensive range of organic vegetables.