文档介绍：Scribe Publications
ANIC GARDENING
AND MOON PLANTING
Lyn Bagnall has been actively involved in professional
horticulture and garden design for more than 30 years,
including working for two major retail nurseries in Sydney.
Lyn and her husband are anic farmers on a small
property in the mid-north coast of New South Wales, where
they grow fresh culinary herbs for market, wine grapes, and
fruit and vegetables.
Lyn has also written the Biological Farmers of Australia’s
Organic School Gardens program for Australian primary
schools, and regular articles on gardening and moon planting
for a range of Australian magazines. Her magazine articles, as
well as her blog at , have
been popular with both amateur gardeners mercial
growers.
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Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
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Email: ******@.au
First published by Scribe 2006
New edition (with revisions) published 2009
This updated edition published 2012
Text and illustrations copyright © Lyn Bagnall 2006, 2009,
2012
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under
copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be
reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or
transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without
the prior written permission of the publisher of this book.
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication data
Bagnall, Lyn.
anic Gardening and Moon Planting: updated edition
with moon-planting notes from 2012 to 2017.
New ed.
9781921942563 (e-book.)
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Organic gardening–Australia. 2. Organic gardening–New
Zealand. 3. Astrology and gardening–Calendars. 4. Planting
time.
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Contents
Preface
1. THE LOWDOWN ON DIRT
Why is your soil so important?
Soils and soil pH
Earthworms
Green manure and cover crops
Crop rotation
Companion planting
2. KEEPING SOIL HEALTHY
What not to use i