How to Grow Your Own Nuts: Choosing, Cultivating and Harvesting Nuts in Your Garden

The book "How to Grow Your Own Nuts" is a comprehensive guide to growing, harvesting, and processing nuts, written by forest gardening expert Martin Crawford. It covers various planting methods, health benefits, and secondary uses of nut trees, making it essential reading for anyone interested in growing nuts at home or commercially.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 09 September 2021
Publisher: Green Books

A comprehensive guide to growing, harvesting, and processing nuts, written by forest gardening expert Martin Crawford, is a must-read for anyone interested in cultivating this versatile and delicious crop. Nut trees are perennial plants that require minimal maintenance and soil cultivation, making them an ideal choice for forest gardens. Not only are nuts a crucial source of protein and a delectable snack, but they also offer a range of surprising health benefits. They lower blood pressure, are rich in antioxidants, and reduce the risk of heart and neurodegenerative diseases.

How to Grow Your Own Nuts is a visually stunning book that features gorgeous illustrations of trees and nuts. It includes both old favorites like hazelnuts and walnuts, as well as less common varieties such as hickories and butternuts, and the exoticly named chinkapin. The guide provides detailed information on how nuts can be planted in a variety of ways, including singly in a small area, in an orchard or nuttery, as silvopasture around grazing animals, in alley cropping between cereal crops, or intercropping between fruit bushes.

In addition to its practical advice, the book also includes a handy A-Z that details nut trees' many secondary uses, from timber, oil, dyes, fodder, and cosmetics to medicines and honey. Martin also discusses how the beautiful spring blossom is attractive to bees, particularly from almond and sweet chestnut trees, making them excellent for supporting pollinators. Whether you are planning to grow nuts at home or commercially, this book is essential reading.

Weight: 1116g
Dimension: 206 x 254 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780857845528