Creative Sustainable Gardening in New Zealand

Diana Anthony

Do you desire a better understanding of the environmental challenges gardeners and citizens of the twenty-first century will need to face?  Are you confused by gobbledegook about global Warming? Do you want to know more about genetically modified food, chemicals that leave residues in food crops, and the impact of toxic herbicides and pesticides on human health and the environment?  Perhaps you simply wish to save time, energy and money in the garden, and learn how to institute chemical free methods of pest, weed, and disease control.

Written with a strong conservation bias, Creastive Sustainable Gardening addresses these and other vital environmental issues in an easily digested straightforward manner.  The author offers sound hands on advice on the techniques of soil conditioning, composting and mulching, together with related topics such as companion planting, creating a home worm farm and instituting garden permaculture systems.  She also describes how to plan small space edible gardens and how to cultivate healthy home grown fruit and vegetables by natural sustainable methods.  There is information on designing and planting gardens that are drought resistant and low maintenance, and advice on creative landscaping with trees.