The Tui NZ Vegetable Garden

Book excerpt: The second edition of The Tui New Zealand Vegetable Garden contains all the essential gardening information you need, no matter what size garden you have. For beginners, it explains how to condition the soil, how and where to plant and harvesting tips. There is also a section on how to combat pests and diseases in order to build a healthy and thriving garden. The second edition builds on the information from the first by including new vegetable varieties and ways to cook the produce you grow, additional, up-to-date information throughout and an extensive, updated planting calendar. Chapters include: • •The Basics – building and preparing a garden and the basic life of a plant. •Garden management •A to Z of vegetables •A to Z of herbs •Problems in your garden – insects and pests, weeds and fungal diseases •Garden diary •Updated and extensive regional calendar