Growing Fruit

Grow The Best Blueberries

By Vladimir G. Shutak and Robert E. Gough
Clear, informative instructions on how to get the most out of blueberry plants, including pruning, pollination, fertilizing, and more. An excellent overall guide to maximizing blueberry crops. 32 pages.

Grow the Best Strawberries

By Louise Riotte
Part of the Country Wisdom Bulletin Series, contains dozens of tips and techniques for maximizing the health and yeilds from strawberry plants. Full of innovative ideas and useful country wisdom, this guide can help even novice gardeners produce lots of big, tasty berries, but at the same time outwit common garden pests and increase the viability of next year's crop. A very handy guide. 32 pages.

Growing Fruits and Berries For The Home Garden

This no-nonsense guide to home fruit growing is now completely revised and updated. Lewis Hill writes with clarity, enthusiasm, and the authority gained from over 45 years of growing fruits, nuts, and berries. Basic enough for novices and comprehensive enough for more experienced growers, the book features:

• Recommendations about new, improved fruit cultivars
• Effective and environmentally sound advice on how to fertilize plantings and control pests and diseases
• Complete information about what fruit to grow and where
• Recommendations on improving the soil, planting, pruning, thinning, and other year-round maintenance
• Suggestions for harvesting, preserving, and storage

The Berry Growers Companion

By Barbara L. Bowling
Now available in a convenient paperback format, this berry growing reference is an essential guide for anyone growing them for pleasure or for profit. Berry fruits have long been used and appreciated in the kitchen, but the aesthetic appeal and practical benefits they bring to the garden landscape are all too often ignored. Whether using strawberry plants for ground cover, enjoying the colorful autumn foliage of blueberry bushes, or training a grapevine to climb a trellis, gardeners will find that berry plants can make highly versatile contributions to a range of environments. Backyard gardeners, as well as small fruit growers and nursery people, will find an abundance of valuable, practical information in this volume, including plant lists and tables, cultivation tips, and color photographs for plant identification. 308 pages.

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

By Lee Reich
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 toughest garden situations, cold-hardy, and pest and disease-resistant, they are as enticing to the beginner as to the advanced gardener. This expanded sequel to the author's celebrated Uncommon Fruits Worthy of Attention offers new fruits, new varieties, and new photos and illustrations to entice the reader into an exciting world of garden pleasure. 288 pages.