Organic Fruit Growing
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, Annette makes fruit growing easy with advice on:
■ soil preparation and drainage
■ water wise design
■ nutrition
■ coping with climactic variations (including drought tolerance)
■ propagation
■ purchasing and planting
■ pruning and training
■ pollination
■ how to cook with various fruit (recipes provided)
■ pest and diseases and how to control them organically.
Complete with profiles of 60 shrubs, vines and trees, including unusual fruits such as carambola, grumichama and granadilla, and specific advice on how to best manage their requirements, Organic Fruit Growing will show you, whether a novice or experienced gardener, how to supply family, friends and neighbours with fruit all year round.
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This book should be available in all good book stores and selected nurseries late August, early September 2011 or by mail order from Green Harvest www.greenharvest.com.au  or ABC Books http://shop.abc.net.au
Independant Book Reviews:
                         Penny Woodward
                         Werribee Park Heritage Orchard
                         Life Style.com.au (Jennifer Chapman)
                         Weekend Australian (pdf)
                         Brisbane Organic Growers (pdf)

For wholesale enquiries please contact Sunstate Books (07) 3255 5552

Organic Vegetable Gardening                                                                                            
In a world where mass-produced food often lacks taste and freshness, more and more people are growing their own vegetables. This new, greatly expanded edition of Annette McFarlane’s gardening classic 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, sow and germinate seeds, Annette offers a mass of new and exciting material. In ‘Garden to Gourmet’, she explains how to grow Australian bush food and the herbs and spices that give unique character to the cuisines of China, Greece, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand and India. There are additional chapters on growing different types of mushrooms, and edible flowers and weeds. For gardeners with not much room to move, there is a whole new chapter on growing a large range of vegetables in containers. And for those interested in heirloom vegetables, advice on collecting and storing seeds. All this plus extensive instructions on how to grow over 115 vegetables in the ‘A for Amaranth Spinach to Z for Zucchini’ section, which includes heaps of new information on Asian greens and cabbages and unusual vegetables, ensures that Organic Vegetable Gardening remains the organic grower’s bible.
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Available through ABC Bookshops, all good book stores and selected local nurseries. For Mail Order contact Green Harvest http://www.greenharvest.com.au  Phone 1800 681014 (within Australia)
For wholesale enquiries please contact Sunstate Books (07) 3255 5552