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Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden - by Christy Wilhelmi (Paperback)

Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden - by  Christy Wilhelmi (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>With <i>Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden</i>, 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Forget the farmer's market. Grow your own delicious, organic apples, figs, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries, citrus fruits, and more with <i>Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden</i>. No green thumb required. </b> <p/> Even<b> beginners become successful fruit "farmers"</b> with the techniques and advice offered by author Christy Wilhelmi, the force behind the popular gardening website, Gardenerd. Selecting the best <b>small-scale fruit trees, bushes, vines, and plants</b> for your climate, siting them properly, and <b>pruning your compact trees</b> for health and productivity are some of the many topics covered in the pages of this <b>bible of small-space fruit growing</b>. <p/> You'll also discover how to: <ul><li>Turn your urban, suburban, or rural garden into a fruit factory, no matter its size</li><li>Maximize production from edible container fruit gardens</li><li>Grow more food in less space</li><li>Limit your family's synthetic pesticide consumption</li><li>Choose varieties with increased disease resistance</li><li>Select plants that grow well in your climate</li><li>Maintain your fruiting plants correctly to encourage years of prolific harvests</li></ul> With <b>modern, dwarf varieties</b>, and help from <i>Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden</i>, a <b>healthy, high-yielding garden filled with fruit-producing plants</b> is possible--even in the smallest of yards.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>"...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."</i>--<b>Beth Py-Lieberman</b>, <i><b>Washington Gardener Magazine</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Christy Wilhelmi</b> 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 <i>Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden</i>, <i>Gardening for Geeks</i>, <i> </i>and the novel, <i>Garden Variety</i>. <br> </p>

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