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A gardeners supply point to help you find what you need.

This is your one-stop gardeners supply for books, tools, education resources and more. The resources here are sorted into categories, with a quick link to each gardeners supply category below.

Food Gardening Books		E-books and Courses
If you can't grow it
Just for fun		Essential Tools

At the beginning of each category you will find a brief description of the kinds of resources it may contain. More things will be added as they become available, so check back often. But if you cannot find what you need or have an idea for something that should be here, please send a message to gardeners supply.

E-books and Courses		back to top
These are a selection of courses and e-books that I have either used myself or checked out and found to be of excellent quality and highly useful for various aspects of food gardening. Each of the links here will take you to a new page with more detailed information.
Organic food gardening beginners course	Organic vegetable gardening e-book	Biodynamic method for making compost
The Complete Grape Growers Guide	Beekeeping for Beginners	Home-made Energy
Growing Tomatoes

Food Gardening Books		back to top
Below is a selection of books that I have found useful in developing one or more projects. Of course, there are a great many good books available. If you are looking for other topics, then we have an extensive range available in our food gardening bookstore. We also have a page devoted to books about keeping livestock like chickens in the garden, and if you have had a sudden flush of fruit, tomatoes or other vegetables, you may be interested in books especially about preserving food. We even have pages just for growing vegetables and fruit gardening.

	Growing Chinese Vegetables is a valuable guide to successful cultivation of a range of vegetables that scarcely rate a mention elsewhere. It is one of the few good references to water chestnuts that I have found. Of course, this is only just one of many interesting and useful vegetables included in this book. Others include Winter Melon, Sesame and Ginger.
Growing wild food-plant species in your garden is a really interesting thing to do - it opens up so many possibilities, to say nothing of adding real variety to your family's diet. This book is the one I use in researching Australian Wild Food plants, like Australian Wild Rice is now attracting a lot of interest whenever visitors come to my home. You can also find another book on North American Wild Food on our Gardeners Supply bookstore page.

Gardening essentials		back to top
This section the Gardeners Supply includes a range of gardening essentials tools, equipment and other useful gizmos, together with other items I have found useful on particular projects. For a more extensive range of tools, we have also put together a toolbox page. As well as this we also have a page devoted to gardening safety items like gloves, glasses, knee pads and boots.

	In the past I have avoided using water crystals, because they are acceptable for Organic gardening. However, the new climate in our area is so dry that I am finding it very difficult to grow anything with the current water restrictions without them. This does not mean I have given up though! These crystals are at least bio-degradeable and so once I have found better ways to adapt my gardening to the new conditions, I can simply stop using them without fear of having done any harm to my garden.
	The best methods of composting require only careful selection of the right materials, but that is not always possible. For compost bins and heaps made from general kitchen and garden waste, it is always best to use a compost accelerator. This large pack will keep you going for quite a while, making it excellent value.
	Of course, if you are composting your garden waste, which is always a good thing to do, you will need to turn the jumble of leaves, weeds and branches into something that is uniform and easy-to-handle. This is best done with a mulcher. The design of these tools has improved dramatically over the years and now even small electric models like this are really efficient and reliable, while also being easy to store and maintain.

If you cant grow it		back to top
We all have limitations. Even if we could be self-sufficient for our basic food needs, there would still be some things we could not produce ourselves. This Gardeners Supply section includes food items and other products that are organic, very high quality and among those things that are most likely to be difficult to produce in the home garden. In other words: If you can't grow it or produce it yourself, you may be able to find it here.

	One of my own limitations is that I lack the space to safely keep bees (although, in the meantime I am looking into the possibility of keeping native stingless honeybees). Naturally, I need to buy honey, but in recent years there have been concerns about cheap imports of honey that contains antibiotics and preservatives. The thing I find most difficult if to find honey that is not only Organic, but also unprocessed (Organic Raw Honey). These are a couple I have found.

Just for fun		back to top
The gardeners supply can even help you have a bit of fun. So here are some items that aim to help you lighten the mood a bit. Whether its a nifty looking tote bag to use bringing your food in from the garden, or a mouse pad that reminds you to visit Food-from-the-Garden.com again - we hope you will find something here.

A gardeners supply point to help you find what you need.

E-books and Courses

Food Gardening Books

Gardening essentials

If you cant grow it

Just for fun