The perfect tree-ripe apple is as tempting today as it was in the day of Adam and Eve. Now every gardener can grow their temptations with the help of this in-depth guide. Over 80 charts and illustrations will lead the novice through selecting, planting, and caring for the young fruit tree. For the more experienced gardener, there are tips on ...
Drawing upon Masumoto's own experience as a Japanese American peach and grape farmer, this novel follows his attempt not just to keep his peaches alive but to farm in a new way, working with and not against nature.
The Backyard Berry Book provides the home gardener with a complete guide to growing strawberries, rhubarb, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, currants, gooseberries, grapes, and kiwi fruit. It also includes details on soil nutrition and testing, important plant nutrients, and mulching.
Fruit trees, shrubs, and vines are true two-for-one plants. Many varieties are strikingly beautiful - well suited to doing double duty as delicious sources of sweet, organic fruit and as ornamental additions to the home landscape. Home grown fruit plants also tie in perfectly with the growing locavore movement. It's difficult to find food that's ...
This is an illustrated instruction for 60 gardening techniques helpful in raising vegetables, fruits and herbs. Problem-solving tables are included which help determine the causes of plant problems, and offer safe, organic solutions. There are 350 illustrations to accompany the text.
With clarity, enthusiasm, and the authority gained from more than 45 years of growing fruits, nuts, and berries, Lewis Hill explains the how-tos of growing fruit in your backyard, and the joys this will bring you. With this full exploration of choosing cultivars for your grounds, environmentally sound soil and pest management, pruning and thinning ...
Pavord illustrates that fruits and vegetables can do more than provide a tasty treat on the table--they can also be used to create beautiful gardens. Rich photos illustrate how to incorporate fruits and vegetables into gardens of different sizes and shapes. It provides a cornucopia of ideas for containers or patios, large and small spaces. ...
A guide to choosing and growing garden fruit. This covers the selection and care of tree and soft fruit, including pruning, pollination and pests, and a section on shop-bought fruit.
The author puts over 20 years of vegetable growing & small business experience into this handbook for beginning & experienced agricultural entrepreneurs. A complete guide to business management & marketing for the small scale vegetable grower. Contains a wealth of information on budgets, crop planning, direct marketing, farmers' markets, roadside ...
Here is the only single-volume reference that supplies all the information necessary to plant a successful organic food garden. Before it was a book, THE FACT HUNGRY ORGANIC GARDENER was organic gardener Tanya L K Denckla's private database, the distillation of years of hands-on, real-life, dirt-under-the-fingernails experience in organic gardens. ...
Gollner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the world of fruit--from the jungles of Borneo to American supermarkets--in this broadly appealing and vividly written tale of horticultural obsession.
Nostalgia combines with authoritative information in this reissue of Rodale's classic guidebook. Actually seven manuals in one, the book covers general organic gardening techniques, vegetable growing, home fruit and garden orchards, and herb gardening.
Lee Reich provides a valuable guide to uncommon fruits and berries, which add an adventurous flavor to any garden. Though names like jujube, juneberry, maypop, and shipova may seem exotic at first glance, these fruits offer ample rewards to the gardener willing to go only slightly off the beaten path at local nurseries. Reliable even in the ...
A practical, alphabetical guide to growing, keeping, and cooking virtually all vegetables, herbs, and berries gorwn in the U.S.--including when, where, and how to plant, germination and maturation times, harvesting, storing, diseases and pests, as well as gardening and kitchen tips and a 12-page Gardener's Glossary.
In this stunning follow-up to "75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden", gardener and garden designer, Jack Staub, brings the same charming detail, quirky and remarkable stories, and lovely writing voice to "75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden". After tireless hours of research to bring the most accurate and up-to-date information, as well as the ...
This book shows you how to have a healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and disease in your garden. You'll get nuts and bolts information on companion planting and the use of beneficial insects.
Enjoy the fruits--and veggies and herbs--of your own labor! This comprehensive guide teaches you how to grow bigger and better-quality produce and manage pest problems either conventionally or by organic methods. Inside you'll find: - Numerous growing, harvesting and storage tips for vegetables, fruits and herbs are included ensuring homeowners ...
Based on the model of a healthy natural woodland, a forest garden incorporates a wide variety of useful plants, including fruit and nut trees, perennial herbs, and vegetables. Robert Hart's book beautifully describes his decades of experience gardening in the Shropshire countryside. The principles of "backyard permaculture" he has developed can be ...
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