The Edible Backyard

The Edible Backyard: A Practical Guide to Growing Organic Fruit and Vegetables All Year Round
by Kath Irvine
 
Step-by-step to a beautiful low-work, highly-productive Edible Backyard.
The Edible Backyard book cover with author Kath Irivne kneeling down gathering produce from her garden in a big basket while admiring her onions
The Edible Backyard book cover with author Kath Irivne kneeling down gathering produce from her garden in a big basket while admiring her onions
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You’ll learn

Design

Set your veggie gardens, fruit and chooks up for a strong beginning with my simple take on the permaculture design process.

Lay a strong foundation

Become a soil-building champion, forage for fertility, learn natural pest and disease management, winning ways with weeds and how to plant in guilds.

Build

Greenhouse, berryhouse, no dig veggie beds, perennial companions and set up the orchard with my practical ways.

Grow

Tools, raising seedlings and simple seed saving, watering how to’s, crop rotation, greencrops and the easiest compost in the world.

Know your crops

The lowdown on timing, sowing and growing for vegetable crops plus my favourite perennial vegetables, herbs, nuts, fruit and a few berries too.

Month by month

My monthly growing guide in the veggie patch, greenhouse and orchard to bring you a steady, daily harvest with ease.

I promise you

352 pages of awesome content

Contained in these pages is everything you need to know to grow organic vegetables, fruit and herbs all year round in my simple, tried and true ways.

The book is gorgeous!

Hundreds of stunning photographs and helpful hand-drawn illustrations that share clever design concepts and planting plans for gardens of all shapes and sizes.

Ideal for gardeners at any skill level

From beginners setting up a new garden from scratch, to intermediate trouble-shooters, to advanced green-thumbs seeking deeper knowledge

FAQs

Thanks for your support, but at we are on the road in our housetruck, so no – I’m not selling my books at the mo. Find a copy at your favourite bookshop, or online.  

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