by Jackie French.  A very timely book with very practical information on creating a self-sufficient garden & home.  Includes tips on planning, growing, harvesting & storage of not just vegetables & fruit, but also the staples including grains, beans & lentils, sugars & oils, as well as suggestions on growing in adversity. 1992 - reprinted 2005.  Soft cover.  164 pages.  Australian author.  1 book $19.95

by Jackie French.  A small book with heaps of information.  Jackie's guide is packed full of easy to read advice on which plants to grow together to achieve the best results with vegetables, fruit & flowers as well as ways of using companion planting to improve soil fertility.  Also discusses many common weeds & their use as companion plants.  1991 - reprinted 2007.  Soft cover.  125 pages.  Australian author.

by Jackie French.  A light-hearted approach to all things to do with chooks.  Great for the novice chook farmer including suggestions on which chooks to choose & how to keep chooks laying over winter & summer, as well as all the practicalities & heaps of chook & egg recipes.  1993. Soft cover. 120 pages.  Australian author

by Jackie French.  In her balanced & practical approach to controlling garden pests, Jackie suggests that in growing crops well you will receive the benefit of having very few pests & diseases to worry about.  Those pests that persist can then be controlled with the multitude of natural & organic pesticides and fungicides that Jackie has developed & tested.  This book contains workable natural gardening and farming methods, along with techniques for natural pest control in flower and vegetable gardens, orchards & small farms.  Includes info on bird-attracting plants, companion planting, organic pest remedies & a natural pest control calendar.  2002 - reprinted 2007.  Soft cover.  186 pages.  Australian author

by Lolo Houbein.  Never grown a radish?  This is the book for you.  The best & cheapest food is the food you grow in your own piece of dirt.  One Magic Square shows how, with a ten-minute effort, you can start your own productive food garden on a single square metre.  Includes food plot designs for all seasons in temperate climates. 
Lolo, who currently resides in Adelaide, experienced wartime famine in her western Holland hometown when all animals, birds, fish & rodents were eaten, and all trees used for firewood.  Food security has been her life-long preoccupation.  Soft cover.  357 pages.  Australian author

by Jackie French.  This book takes a very natural & practical approach to controlling weeds.  Jackie shows how weeds may be controlled using simple, home-grown, natural herbicides in addition to mulching, solarisation and applications of urine, steam or boiling water, as well as a multitude of other cheap, environmentally safe and gentle techniques.  Also includes a chapter on using weeds as edibles, medicinally, & in the garden as pesticides, fertiliser, mulch & compost.  An easy to read, highly recommended book.  1997 - reprinted 2006.  Soft cover.  156 pages.  Australian author

by Michel & Jude Fanton. The founders of Australia's Seed Saver's Network show how gardeners can protect our global food heritage - and eat it too. The seeds and growth cycles of 117 vegetables, culinary herbs & edible flowers described in detail including practical information on how to save seed & guidelines to keeping it pure. Highly recommended for anyone wishing to save their own seed. Soft cover. 178 pages.  Australian authors.

by Jackie French.  Includes vital information on the many & varied ways of adding fertility to your soil including natural fertilisers, green manure, animal manure, compost, & mulch. More than just your average composting book, specific needs of each vegetable & fruit tree are discussed & focus is made on 10 different plots of land & how to improve them including new & established gardens, gardens on steep slopes, a barren paddock, a hill of trees, the tropical garden, dry gardens, burnt & eroded land, a dead garden etc.  An easy to read, highly practical book.  1995 - reprinted 1999.  Soft cover.  184 pages.  Australian author. 1 book $18.95

by Jane Davenport.  Discover the role 'good bugs' play in your garden & how easy it is to attract them over to your side of the fence.  Jane's philosophy is that instead of battling pests with chemicals, try nurturing some of this planet's most fascinating & vulnerable creatures - friendly garden insects?  In return, they'll help you maintain your garden in a healthy & sustainable way as well as provide you with immense pleasure as you nurture them & watch them grow.  Includes detailed information on the many insects as well as a quick reference BUGliography.  Remember, you're not the ony one at work in your backyard!  A beautifully presented book.  2006 - reprinted 2007.  Soft cover.  130 pages

by Jackie French.  In this book Jackie shares her passion for pumpkins detailing everything you need to know about this vegetable including pumpkin varieties, growing & harvesting them.  Includes method for growing giant pumpkins as well as many interesting & traditional recipes.  Also includes instructions on how to make your own pumpkin flour.   1996.  Soft cover.  116 pages.  Australian author.

by Jackie French. There is no need to water your garden, or weed, prune, spray or dig if you follow Jackie's approach to wilderness gardening by letting the plants, and nature do most of the work for you.  This book is about ideas & how to set up a garden that will look after itself, and yet keeps fruiting, flowering & growing all year round.  Includes ideas for dealing with drought & bushfire, pests & disease as well as weeds, and has chapters fully devoted to the vegetable, fruit & flower garden.  2007.  Soft cover.  225 pages.  Australian author

by Peter Cundall

The Practical Australian Gardener is certainly a classic and Peter Cundall one of the country's most trusted advisers. This is the complete garden guide, whether you're planting vegetables, ornamentals, house plants, home orchards, or landscaping a larger area. It tells you how to have a pest-free garden without using dangerous chemicals, and includes advice on keeping larger pests – such as dogs, cats and possums – out of your yard.

With a week-by-week plan of action for the whole year, and with a revised index in this edition making it even easier to use, The Practical Australian Gardener is the only book you'll need for a healthy, flourishing garden.

Australian Author.  2002.  Paperback.  224 pages.  1 book $35.00

by Stefan Mager.  Seeds from your own crops are accustomed to your climate and soil and likely to be more resilient to pests in your areas. Collecting and saving your own seed is easy with this A4, fold-out, full-colour, laminated chart.

Australian.  Paperback.  1 Foldout Chart $12.00

by W. J. Lewis & D. McE. Alexander.  A Practical Guide for Fruit & Nut Plants & Ornamentals.  A comprehensive guide to all types of grafting & budding techniques.  This book covers the basics of budding, grafting & multi-grafting including step-by-step & pictorial instructions.  Advice is also given on the selection of scion wood, the preparation of rootstocks & the after-care of grafted plants.

Budding Techniques: T-Budding, Chip Budding, Patch Budding, V-Budding

Grafting Techniques:  Splice or Whip Graft, Wedge or Cleft Graft, Whip & Tongue Graft, Bark Graft, Side Graft, Approach Graft

Species Covered: Australian Natives, Custard Apples, Avocado, Cacti, Cashew, Citrus, Conifers, Deciduous Ornamentals, Grape, Macadamia, Mango, Passionfruit, Pistachio, Pome Fruit (Apples & Pears), Roses, Sapodilla, Stone Fruits, Tomatoes, Walnut, Ziziphus.

Australian Author.  2010.  Paperback.  96 pages.  1 book $34.95

by Penny Woodward.  A practical book showing you how to grown your own herbs, make infusions, teas, salves, ointments & rubs.  Lists specific herbs for different ailments.  Includes photographs for each herb.

Australian Author.  2003.  Paperback.  133 pages.  1 book $26.95

by Jackie French.  A simple guide to building in stone with formwork including garden walls, pathways, ponds, stone floors or perhaps...... a whole house!

Australian Author.  2001.  Paperback.  79 pages.  1 book $16.95

by Amy Goldman.  A wonderful tribute to the amazing array of heirloom melons; long and swiggly, mottled or striped; melons in every conceivable hue; melons that taste like cucumbers or pineapples, melons sweeter than any you've ever tasted. 

This books displays 100 melons, each photographed exquisitely by Victor Schrager, and each with a story.  Also included are directions on how to grow, propagate, and harvest melons, sources for seeds, and how to beomce a seed saver and do something important toward preserving our agricultural heritage.

American Author.  2002.  Hardback.  176 pages.  1 book $42.95

by Amy Goldman.  A book for the squash enthusist including 150 different specimens each colourfully captured & photographed by Victor Schrager.  From the garden behemoth Atlantic Giant to the vegetable revolution created by the common supermarket zucchini, Amy Goldman presents a treasury of rare flavours and forms.

Organised by genus & species and designed to enable visual comparisons, 'The Compleat Squash' offers growing and harvesting instructions and tips on saving seeds.  A selection of recipes from soups to desserts completes this magnificient volume, perfect for gardeners and all who are of a botanical mind.

American Author.  2001.  Hardback.  214 pages.  1 book $54.95

by Amy Goldman.  Recipes, portraits and history of the world's most beautiful fruit.  From glorious heirloom beefsteaks - that delicious tomato you had as a kid but can't seem to find anymore - to exotica like the tiny currant tomato, a pea-size fruit with a surprisingly big flavour, this book is filled with gorgeous shots of tomatoes so luscious they verge on the erotic.  Contains fifty-five delicious recipes and more than two hundred photos.  An irresistible book for anyone who loves to cook or garden.
American Author.  2008.  Hardback.  258 pages.  1 book $54.95

by Steven Bradley.  Propagation is a cheap and reliable way of obtaining a plentiful supply of new plants for your garden.  From sowing seeds to taking leaf cuttings and dividing bulbs, this practical guide provides step-by-step instructions for all the major techniques to help you achieve great results every time.
British Author.  2006.  Paperback.  128 pages.  1 book $14.95

by Eliot Coleman.  Year round vegetable production using deep-organic techniques and unheated greenhouses.  Coleman explains how to successfully - and profitably - harvest fresh vegetables all year round in even the coldest climates using unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.  Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules, crop management, harvesting practices, and even marketing methods, in this meticulous, illustrated guide. 
American Author.  2009.  Paperback.  247 pages.  1 book $59.95

by Gene Logsdon.  An organic guide to growing, processing and using nutritious whole grains for home gardeners and local farmers.

2009. Soft cover. 308 pages. 1 Book $59.95