Excellent Book: I recommend it to anyone interested in growing fruit at home. The information about the different varieties of each type of fruit was very useful.
The Backyard Berry Book: A Hands-On Guide to Growing Berries, Brambles, and Vine Fruit in the Home Garden: Extremely helpful! Just moved to a new home and wanted to start my plants off right. This book helped me not only in the selection of my plants, but where on my property it is best to plant them, and how to properly plant them. I also learned the correct ways of pruning and fertilizing each plant. I have found this book to be an invaluable tool to a begining backyard gardener.
Very helpful and comprehensive.: This is a great book that I refer to whenever I have a berry question such as planting or feeding or pruning. A lot of useful information in here. Stella knows her stuff!
Great Berry Info for the Home Gardener: Another great book for those who want to grow berries in their own back yard!
Don't Rely Solely on this Book: Someone highly recommended this book to me but I'm really not that impressed. It's got good basic information but some of the info such as on bramble primocanes is confusing and took further research to understand. Stella recommends 3-4 feet between rows of strawberries. Why? Who knows. Maybe she's including a path between rows. I don't know but 3-4 feet between rows of strawberries adds a whole lot of ground to be taken care of and it's absolutely not necessary (unless you're adding 18"-24" for a path)Organization of the book is not very good either. Even though there is a chapter on raspberries, the spacing for raspberries was not found there. It is in the chapter on brambles.
| Author: | Stella Otto | | Binding: | Paperback | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 634.7 | | EAN: | 9780963452061 | | ISBN: | 0963452061 | | Number Of Pages: | 288 | | Publication Date: | 1995-04-01 |
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