The AUSTRALIAN FRUIT and VEGETABLE GARDEN

by CLIVE BLAZEY and JANE VARKULEVICIUS

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Hardcover book with dustjacket, 144 pages. Published 2007 by The Digger's Club

This new, totally updated fruit and vegetable book has the most detailed guidance on how to grow vegetables and fruit successfully in your own back yard. It is written by Australians for Australian conditions. Based on 30 years of experience at the Digger's Club gardens, it covers over 240 vegetables and herbs, and 188 fruits, nuts and berries. This is a guide for all climates and even the tiniest garden spaces. It explains how to make compost, and shows how you can save ,000s growing your own produce.

Dig up your front lawn - that’s all the space you need to grow the best fruit and vegetables! Peaches dripping with juice and sweetness can only be enjoyed to the full when picked from the tree. At last an authoritative Australian gardening guide that shows gardeners how to integrate food and flowers to create the ‘Garden of Eden’ for the 21st century! Written by Clive Blazey, founder of The Digger’s Club and Jane Varkulevicius this comprehensive guide draws together the last 10 years work at Digger’s in rescuing and preserving the best heirloom vegetables. The inclusion of sub-tropical and other fruits extends the interest for gardeners providing 2 books for the price of one.

The Australian Fruit & Vegetable Garden also includes

• pages packed with wonderful colour pictures of fruit and vegetables
• for the first time comprehensive climate charts covering all Australian conditions and advice from local experts for each climate
• ideas of food plants to grow for your health

About the Authors
Clive Blazey is the founder and CEO of The Diggers Club that has pioneered the promotion of heirloom vegetable and fruit varieties. He has helped to write four books on gardening, and draws from his thirty years experience with his nursery and two gardens. He is a leading advocate for organic gardening and an opponent of genetically modified food.

Jane Varkulevicius, Grad. Dip. App. Sci (Hort) has been a passionate gardener from an early age, and has worked in the horticultural industry for 30 years. She has developed, with her husband and two children, a garden that is not only a sanctuary for friends and family but also with an emphasis on ornamental food production. Making the most of every plant in the garden, no matter how small the space, has led her to believe that an understanding of how plants work and how they can be pruned is an essential garden skill.

Jane's book, Pruning for Flowers and Fruit is also available - click here for more information

The Australian Fruit and Vegetable Garden by Clive Blazey and Jane Varkulevicius