HARVEST

A complete Australian guide to the edible garden

by MEREDITH KIRTON

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New hardcover book published 2009, 440 pages. Beautiful full-colour photography throughout the book.

This beautifully illustrated book by bestselling gardening author Meredith Kirton will inspire you to grow, harvest and cook your own seasonal fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices, whether your garden is a large suburban block, a small city courtyard or in the country. Full of tips, step-by-step gardening techniques and fascinating historical backgroud, Harvest is your definitive Australian guide to growing your own delicious produce.

Chapters include:

• The Kitchen Garden
  • The basics
  • Planting and harvesting times
  • Growing methods
  • Organic gardening
  • Garden wildlife
  • Common pests
  • Common problems
• Fruit
  • Berries
  • Tropical fruit
  • Stone fruit
  • Pome fruit
  • Citrus
  • Vine fruit
  • Nuts
  • Wild food
• Vegetables
  • Leafy greens
  • Brassicas
  • Roots
  • Bulbs
  • Pods and pulses
  • Nightshade family
  • Shoots and stems
  • Seeds and grains
  • Aquatics
• Herbs
  • Lamiaceae herbs
  • Asteraceae herbs
  • Apiaceae herbs
  • Edible weeds
  • Root herbs
  • Buds and flowers
  • Spices
  • Teas, tonics and tinctures

Meredith Kirton recently won Silver Laurel Award for Best General Gardening Book (2007-09) from the Horticultural Media Association for Harvest.

About the author:

Meredith Kirton has been committed to gardening and horticulture for over 20 years. She has been gardening editor for Sunday Life in the Sun-Herald and Australia’s House and Garden, and contributed regularly to many of Australia’s best loved lifestyle magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, ABC’s Gardening Australia, Home Beautiful and Inside Out. Meredith has also worked on top-rating television shows such as Groundforce, Burke’s Backyard and Home, and Gardening Australia. She regularly appears on ABC radio as a gardening expert. .

Meredith is the author of 4 bestselling gardening books - An Hour in the Garden, Dig and Plot. Harvest is her her latest book. Dig: Seasonal Gardening is also available - click here for more information

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Harvest by Meredith Kirton