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List of contents
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the world of small-space fruit gardening
CHAPTER 1 What’s a Mini Fruit Garden?
CHAPTER 2 Here’s to Your Success!
CHAPTER 3 Choosing the Best Fruit Trees for Your Climate
CHAPTER 4 Grafted Trees and Their Importance to Small-Scale Home Orchards
CHAPTER 5 Let’s Get Planting!
CHAPTER 6 Berries and Other Fruits
CHAPTER 7 Caring for Your Home Fruit Garden
CHAPTER 8 Pruning for Production, Size, and Structure
CHAPTER 9 Managing Pests and Diseases
Last Thoughts
Appendix A
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
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 specializes 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.
Summary
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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"...you’ll be almost overwhelmed with tips and techniques for creating what can only be described as a wonderland dreamscape, but with Wilhelmi’s immersive knowledge, could actually be rendered into reality. The book is a one-stop shop—vertical gardening, arbor making, espalier building, tree grafting, soil prep, compost building, drainage designing, container gardening, pruning strategies, drip irrigation building, disease resistance techniques, pest control, feeding and fertilization, and finally harvesting."
