A complete guide to growing fruits, berries and nuts in the home garden, from planting to harvest
Grow your own fruit at home
Lewis Hill, a Vermont grower who planted many thousands of trees on his farm, and Leonard Perry, a horticulture professor at the University of Vermont, wrote this comprehensive guide to growing fruit at home. It covers berries, grapes, fruit trees and nut trees, with practical, organic advice for gardeners in many climates.
Who will enjoy it
Home gardeners who want to grow their own fruit, from beginners planting a few berry bushes to those planning a small orchard.
What you will get
A thorough, practical and encouraging guide to growing fruit at home, from a few berry bushes to a small backyard orchard.
The Fruit Gardener's Bible Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Fruit growing · Gardening · Orchards
Length
320 pages · ≈ 9 h
More about this book
The first chapters explain the basics: planning a fruit garden, choosing the right varieties for your climate and space, preparing soil, planting, watering, feeding and protecting plants from frost, pests and disease without heavy chemicals. There is clear advice on pruning, grafting and propagation, with diagrams that make tricky techniques easier to follow.
The rest of the book looks at individual crops, chapter by chapter: strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, blueberries, currants, elderberries and other bush fruits, grapes, and tree fruits such as apples, pears, peaches, plums and cherries, as well as nut trees. Each chapter explains how to grow the plant, which varieties to choose and how to harvest and store the crop. The style is friendly and practical, based on decades of experience, and the advice is especially useful for gardeners in cooler regions.
Practical, thorough and encouraging, a reliable companion for any home fruit grower, and a book that makes the long wait for a first harvest feel well worth the effort. Lewis Hill also wrote a companion guide to flower gardening. About 320 pages in the Storey hardcover.
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