Definitive and authoritative advice to choosing, planting, growing and maintaining 75 of your own fruit and nut crops.
A combination of botanical beauty and practical advice in The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Fruit will inspire beginners and experienced growers to love and grow their own fruit.
This fully and beautifully illustrated guide fromKew Royal Botanical Gardens' fruit expert Kay Maguire gives you all the insight, knowledge and advice you will need tomaster all kinds of fruit growing.
The book contains a full guide to each type of fruit, with tips onwhere to grow, plantinghow to tend to them and the best tricks to get the most out of your crop. From citrus to berries, apples and figs to nuts and melons, allthe most delicious fruits are covered in full detail.
The book also contains 12 projects for readers to follow along with at home, fromplanting a fig tomaking quince jelly, growing amelon from seed tomaking chestnut stuffing.
These projects willbring the wonderful world of fruit to life and produceconfident, keen growers wanting to expand their experience of growing their own.
The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Fruit is part of theKew Gardener's Guide to Growing series and is accompanied by Growing Herbs, Growing House Plants, Growing Vegetables, Growing Orchids and Growing Bulbs.