Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden

Name: Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780760370261
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Planting and Tending Small Fruit Trees and Berries in Gardens and Containers

By Christy Wilhelmi

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Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden by Christy Wilhelmi is your ultimate guide to cultivating a bountiful fruit garden in limited spaces. From apples and figs to citrus and berries, this book equips beginners and seasoned gardeners alike with techniques for selecting suitable dwarf varieties, optimising site and climate conditions, and maintaining healthy, productive plants. Discover how to transform urban, suburban, or rural gardens—no matter the size—into high-yielding fruit factories using containers, pruning, and sustainable pest control.
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This book is ideal for beginner and intermediate gardeners interested in organic, small-scale fruit growing, especially those with limited space seeking efficient, sustainable methods to produce their own fresh fruit.

With Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden, turn your backyard, deck, or balcony into a fruit-producing paradise with advice for growing small-space dwarf tree fruits, including apples, peaches, and citrus, along with fruiting bushes, brambles, berries, and vines.

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Forget the farmer's market. Grow your own delicious, organic apples, figs, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries, citrus fruits, and more with Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden. No green thumb required. Even beginners become successful fruit "farmers" with the techniques and advice offered by author Christy Wilhelmi, the force behind the popular gardening website, Gardenerd.

Selecting the best small-scale fruit trees, bushes, vines, and plants for your climate, siting them properly, and pruning your compact trees for health and productivity are some of the many topics covered in the pages of this bible of small-space fruit growing. You'll also discover how to:

Turn your urban, suburban, or rural garden into a fruit factory, no matter its size
Maximise production from edible container fruit gardens
Grow more food in less space
Limit your family's synthetic pesticide consumption
Choose varieties with increased disease resistance
Select plants that grow well in your climate
Maintain your fruiting plants correctly to encourage years of prolific harvests

With modern, dwarf varieties, and help from Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden, a healthy, high-yielding garden filled with fruit-producing plants is possible—even in the smallest of yards.

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Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden is praised for its comprehensive, practical advice, covering everything from vertical gardening and espalier building to soil preparation and harvesting. Reviewers highlight author Christy Wilhelmi’s deep expertise and accessible approach as making this book a highly recommended, valuable resource for anyone looking to grow significant amounts of fruit in small spaces.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760370261

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 April 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Illustration: 200 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 192

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About the Author

Christy Wilhelmi empowers people to grow their own food, to be more self-reliant, and to reduce pollution and waste, one garden at a time. Christy is founder of Gardenerd, the ultimate resource for garden nerds, where she publishes her popular blog and podcast. She also specialises in small-space, organic edible garden design and consulting. She holds regular organic gardening classes in California, and has co-taught organic gardening at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Christy was a board member of Ocean View Farms Organic Community Garden in Mar Vista, California, for over 20 years, and gardens almost entirely with heirloom vegetables. Between 70-80 percent of her family's produce comes from her garden of less than 300 square feet. She is author of Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden, Gardening for Geeks, and the novel, Garden Variety.

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