Books

DIY Garden Projects

$45.00

Break out the hammers, charge your drill and set your scissors to 'safety', The Little Veggie Patch Co team will soon be here with the best step by step activities for your garden.

In this easy-to-use guide there are 10 simple start up activities, an A-Z of plant varieties and a detailed pest and disease section. They show just how easy growing your own food can be!

Mat and Dillon from The Little Veggie Patch Co want you to do it yourself. They want you to build your own cubby houses, make your own vertical gardens and create your own seasonal seed charts. It’s easier than you think, and it’s a whole lot of fun.

DIY Garden Projects includes 38 hands-on, step-by-step activities that will help cultivate your handiness and get you out in the garden to make your dream planter boxes and edible green walls – all from inexpensive materials (or stuff you found in the shed). Chapters include garden basics, projects for kids, vertical gardening, using recycled materials and more, and there are projects for every skill level, from the novice gardener to those who seriously know their way around a circular saw.

How to Grow Food in Small Spaces

$45.00

Fabian Capomolla and Mat Pember install edible gardens: in boxes on balconies, in backyard crates, or by creating no-dig garden beds. After years of helping clients grow fruit and vegetables they believe anyone can create their own little edible garden.

In this easy-to-use guide there are 10 simple start up activities, an A-Z of plant varieties and a detailed pest and disease section. They show just how easy growing your own food can be!

Book One - How to Grow Food in Small Spaces

Guide to Backyard Farming

$45.00

Spend a year with The Little Veggie Patch Co, growing vegetables in pots and homemade window boxes, or maybe even building your own vertical garden if space is tight!

This book is packed with fun and easy-to-follow monthly activities such as keeping chickens, growing plants from cuttings, making cider and tomato sugo, and starting a backyard beehive. Learn how to use your homegrown produce to make delicious preserves and jams, or create garden-inspired gifts such as wooden herb markers or stencilled pots. On top of this, there are lots of activities that are perfect for kids, including sowing seeds, planting seedlings and making lemon cordial.

1-Minute Gardener

$45.00

The boys are back with their third book and we think it's the best one yet! Mat and Fabian have taken the mystery out of - and put the fun back into - growing fruit and vegetables. No matter how much or how little space you have, whether you're in the sprawling suburbs or an inner-city highrise, The Little Veggie Patch Co will have you growing food in no time.

1-Minute Gardener features 70 illustrated, step-by step lessons on fast edible gardening essentials, from preparing and caring for your veggie patch (or pot) through to harvesting the rewards - and getting the kids involved along the way. There is no question too simple and task too hard for Fab and Mat. And thanks to this new collection of straight forward guides - all designed to be read and digested in a minute or less - you'll be spending less time reading and more time getting your hands dirty in the garden!