How to grow strong, healthy plants that truly nourish you and your family so that you can get back your health and energy. By creating a healthy garden - and lifestyle - you will regain energy levels, help restore your immune system and give yourself and your family the best chance of living long, happy and healthy lives.

Dear Organic Garden lover,

When I was a little girl I spent most school holidays with my grandparents. We lived many hours drive from them, so I was always excited to be going to stay with for a week or two.

I have many warm memories of wandering around after my grandpa in the garden. He’d talk to me about this plant and that, showing me how to look after them. He’d let me plant seeds with him. And of course there was the feeding of the chooks and collecting the ’googs’ as we’d call them.

My favourite part of the day was mid-morning when we’d ritually go pick our oranges. We’d bring them into grandpa’s work shed, slice them and slurp away! They had a Valencia tree and a Navel, so there were oranges ready to pick almost all year round. Their home grown fruits and vegetables tasted so much better than what I was used to at home (my parents didn’t really care for gardening, so most of our food came from the supermarket).

It was those cherished times spent with my grandpa that gave me my love of gardening. I studied horticulture at TAFE and was co-owner of an edible plants nursery for several years. The combination of my love for growing (and eating) organic food, along with my experience with plants led me to create this e-book on Companion Planting. I needed to organise my garden journal notes, ideas and tips into a format that was way more user-friendly - my journal was just a little messy.

Now I can access the information I want quickly and easily, to make planning my garden a breeze! Growing our own food makes us less reliant on commercially grown foods. Who knows how long produce might have been sitting around on a shelf, or in a cool-room? Do you wonder just what chemicals have been sprayed on that perfect-looking tomato, that really is quite tasteless?

By providing your family with at least some of your fruit and vegetable requirements you will also be helping the environment.

Companion Planting - A Complete Guide to Growing Healthy Plants

Have you ever wondered why some plants grow enthusiastically, while the same variety grown in another part of the garden is sickly or stunted? Could it be that some plants enhance the growth of each other and some hinder them?              

Over countless centuries gardeners have been keen observers of nature, noticing how plants perform depending on their surroundings. When people discovered combinations that worked well or observed the relationship a particular plant had with certain insects, their experiences were passed on to the next generation.

This valuable knowledge was considered gardening lore or myth and dismissed by multinational chemical manufacturers throughout the last century. However, scientific research has recently started to acknowledge that there is truth in many of the