Grow a Little Fruit Tree
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Grow your own apples, figs, plums, cherries, pears, apricots, and peaches in even the smallest backyard! Ann Ralph shows you how to cultivate small yet abundant fruit trees using a variety of specialized pruning techniques. With dozens of simple and effective strategies for keeping an ordinary fruit tree from growing...
Published By Storey Publishing, LLC
Format Paperback
Category
Number Of Pages 168
Publication Date 12/30/2014
ISBN 9781612120546
Dimensions 7 inches x 8.95 inches
"Beautiful and essential. Ann Ralph is your good-natured guide to the sometimes intimidating task of planting bare root fruit trees, thinning fruit, and that nail-biter of them all: pruning."—Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
“This backyard fruit tree owner's manual should come with every fruit tree, or, better yet, get it while you are still deciding what trees to plant.”—Pam Pierce, author of Golden Gate Gardening and Wildly Successful Plants: Northern California
“Ann Ralph argues her case for pruning with such deep knowledge, and wit, and obvious affection for fruit trees, that you cannot help but be converted. A delightful and useful book!”—Mike Madison, author of Blithe Tomato