Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape

Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts is a comprehensive guide to growing productive, edible fruit-and nut-bearing crops in cold-temperate growing regions. It features 50 hardy fruits and nuts with taste profiles, plant descriptions, recommended cultivars, propagation methods, and nutritional needs. The book is filled with beautiful color photographs and concise botanical and cultural information, making it an invaluable resource for both experienced and novice gardeners.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 05 May 2022
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co

Named one of the best gardening books for 2023 by Gardens Illustrated, An Irish Times Best Gardening Book 2023, and a 2023 GardenComm Media Awards Silver Laurel Medal of Achievement, this is the ultimate, easy-to-use resource for growing healthy, resilient, low-maintenance trees, shrubs, vines, and other fruiting plants from around the world, perfect for farmers, gardeners, and landscapers at every scale. Illustrated with more than 200 color photographs and covering 50 productive edible crops, from Arctic kiwi to jujube, medlar to heartnut, this is the go-to guide for growers interested in creating diversity in their growing spaces. Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts is a one-stop compendium of the most productive, edible fruit-and nut-bearing crops that push the boundaries of what can survive winters in cold-temperate growing regions. While most nurseries and guidebooks feature plants that are riddled with pest problems (such as apples and peaches), veteran growers and founders of the Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano, focus on both common and unfamiliar fruits that have few, if any, pest or disease problems and an overall higher level of resilience. Inside Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts, you'll find: Taste profiles for all fifty hardy fruits and nuts, with notes on harvesting and uses Plant descriptions and natural histories Recommended cultivars, both new and classic Propagation methods for increasing plants Nut profiles, including almonds, chestnuts, walnuts, and pecans Fertilization needs and soil/site requirements And much more! With beautiful and instructive color photographs throughout, the book is also full of concise, clearly written botanical and cultural information based on the authors' years of growing experience.

Weight: 916g
Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781645020455