This volume covers techniques for natural pest control of flower and vegetable gardens, orchards and small farms. It includes sections on companion planting, birds and other pest predators, descriptions of Australia's common pests, and the creation and use of organic pesticides and fungicides.

Nowadays, in conventional gardening and farming, weed 'control' means herbicides: chemicals have replaced good management for fertility and for pest, disease and weed control. We hate weeds. 'Weed' is the ultimate insult. But weeds can also be seen as soil repairers, an essential part of any farm or garden management.

If you want to make medlar jelly or quandong jam, chokko chutney or tamarillo sauce (or if you just want to give plain old plum jam a bit of a kick), this book shows you how.

Beautifully illustrated children's book.

Once again Possum and Mopoke venture beyond the safety of The Valley with the Collector Desert Wind. This time they search for more than metal or new plants; they have a mystery to solve even stranger than the music from the sea or the city in the sand. Where did the wild boy Dommy come from? And how could he have tamed lions?

Part of the Children of the Valley series, this book features Possum and Mopoke who have to again face many challenges, adventures and discoveries - not only about life in general, but for Possum also about herself ...and her mother.

Switch on your own, home-based power, water, garbage and sewerage systems. You don't need to know a Watt from a Wallaby to enjoy your independence: home-based systems can be practical, cheap, simple to install, and fun.

This book looks at flowers as the product of millions of years of evolution, their colours, shapes and smells as irresistable to humans as they are to birds, bees, wasps and other pollinators. It also looks at the medicinal powers of flowers, and how witches used to rely on their properties to cast spells and influence the material

This book has separate chapters on the myths & reality of companion planting how to develop your own companion planting and on vegetables, fruit and flowers.

There are few strangers in Jackie French's selection, but her thoughts on growing and preparing these vegetables are both delectable and entertaining.

There's no need to water your garden! Or weed, prune, spray or dig it! In her decades of watching the bush and the animals around her, and of experimenting with hundreds of new growing strategies, the author has learnt to grow things by letting the plants - and nature - do most of the work for her. Here, she helps you learn to do that too.

Do yourself a favor and give this to your son or daughter so that they can pamper you on a Sunday morning with some of Garlic Teena and Gastro Gourmet's recipes.

Why buy your garden, when you can grow it at no cost? Why limit your creativity to your nursery's range, when there's much more to choose from all around you? Written for Australian and New Zealand gardeners, this work tells you, in a non-technical way, the secret of: striking cuttings; cross-pollinating; layering; hybridising; and grafting.

Self-sufficient gardens are beautiful - a ramble of productivity, and a profusion of smells and colour. This book helps you to create a 'Garden of Eden' in your own backyard.

Deals with chickens. This title features many mouth-watering chicken-and-egg recipes. It includes sections on poultry keeping and management that are illustrated with almost 100 full-colour photographs.