The Edible Backyard | Kath Irvine

Gardening expert Kath Irvine’s guide to everything you need to know to grow organic vegetables, fruit and herbs in your garden throughout the year.

In this practical step-by-step guide, gardening teacher Kath Irvine shares her knowledge from more than 20 years of helping Kiwi gardeners design, build, grow and maintain their productive edible gardens.
Kath’s sage, hands-on, often humorous advice steps readers through everything they need to know to grow excellent produce at home, including garden design, tools and equipment, seasonal planting advice, soil fertility, seed-saving basics, managing pests and diseases, and how to incorporate organic and permaculture gardening methods into any home garden.

While documenting a year on her property, Kath shows how you can successfully produce bountiful crops throughout the seasons to provide a steady, daily harvest with minimal wastage.
The book is illustrated with hundreds of stunning photographs and helpful hand-drawn illustrations that share clever design concepts and planting plans for gardens of all shapes and sizes.

Kath is the perfect guide. This easy-to-understand, comprehensive book is ideal for gardeners at any skill level, from beginners setting up a new garden from scratch to intermediate troubleshooters to advanced green thumbs seeking deeper knowledge.