The Little Veggie Patch Co. How To Grow Food in Small Spaces

The Little Veggie Patch Co. How To Grow Food in Small Spaces

Short on space, time and gardening know-how? Worried your children think peas come from the freezer? Looking for a more family-friendly, economic alternative to your neighbourhood grocer? The Little Veggie Patch Co: How to grow food in small spaces is for you!

Fabian Capomolla and Mat Pember run a successful business installing edible gardens: in polystyrene boxes on balconies, in crates you can put anywhere in your backyard, or by creating no-dig, raised garden beds. After years of helping clients set up spaces to grow their own fruit and vegetables they believe anyone can create their own little edible garden, in most any area in Australia. And in this easy-to-use guide they show you how simple it is!

Fundamentals such as Soil, Climate, Watering, Composting, Worm Farms, Saving and Sowing Seeds and Raised Garden Beds are all discussed comprehensively - each with a fully illustrated stepby- step activity to help you create your own little veggie patch, no matter how much space you have.

The complete A-Z of Edible Plants gives you vital information on more than 40 vegetables (and fruit trees), including detailed planting information, ongoing maintenance advice, tips on best companions and when to harvest. And the weekend activities scattered throughout the book will get the kids involved too, whether it's Making a Scarecrow, Building a Spud Tower or Growing Beans in a Bean Can.

Lots of fun, and packed full of all the information you'll need (plus some hilarious tips and stories from the Little Veggie Patch boys' own experience along the way), this colourful guide is for anyone interested in growing their own food.

Growing up in an Italian family, for Fabian Capomollo, Sunday lunch would consist of loud arguments, pasta, veggies from the garden, and would always finish with an espresso and a selection of ripe fruit from the backyard orchard. Starting off in advertising before taking the leap to fulfill his dream of helping people grow food, Fabian now has his own completely edible backyard in Melbourne, with his wife and kids, Jack and Olive.

All Mat Pember's childhood memories revolve around his Nonna and Nonno's backyard near Fremantle, WA. The veggie garden, the enormous garage, where the pork and fennel sausage would hang drying from the ceiling beams, checking the chook shed for eggs, and then looking what was ready for picking in the huge, rambling vegetable patch. Mat worked in landscaping before moving exclusively into edible gardening.

The Little Veggie Patch Co. How To Grow Food in Small Spaces
Pan MacMillan Australia
Authors: Fabian Capomolla and Mat Pember
ISBN: 9781742610184
Price: $45.00