The Best of Jackie French (Harper Collins)
covers everything from aphids to zucchini chocolate cake. From veg to fruit to herbs and flowers, it's a guide to what to plant and how to eat it, store it, or turn it into hand lotions, perfume or a lolly to help prevent carsickness. There's pest control, weed control, what do do well, and a host of recipes.
(The zucchini chocolate cake is GOOD).

The Wilderness Garden (Aird Books)
New expanded edition from 2009. How to create a garden that feeds and delights you, friends, neighbors and wild animals, with no more than a few hours work a year.

Natural Control of Garden pests (Aird Books)
The result of decades of research into who eats what in the garden and orchard, with techniques to control pests without poisoning yourself and other creatures. Note: Summaries of these techniques are in the two books above; this book is aimed at those who want to know 'why', as well as 'how'.

Organic Control of Common Weeds (Aird Books)
Weed control without herbicides. (Yes, of course it can be done.)

Jackie French's Guide to Companion Planting (Aird Books)
Much 'companion planting' lore is myth...or doesn't work in Australia as it relies of pests and predators in the northern hemisphere. But many plant associations DO work.This book will show you how you can plant a garden that will do most of its own pest and weed control- and help feed itself as well.

The Chook Book (Aird Books) -everything you didn't realise you wanted to know about how to keep backyard chooks. Read more.