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Organic Gardener Essential Guide: Fruit
ABC 2010
ABC Organic Gardener magazine has released its Essential Guide on Fruit, a compilation of articles by some of Australia's top gardeners giving you all the secrets to growing fruit naturally.

Inside this special edition, Peter Cundall gives a lesson on pruning, learn how to plan a backyard orchard, how to beat pests and diseases the organic way, and how to store and preserve your harvest. Plus there are detailed growing guides with features on apples, avocadoes, bananas, raspberries and brambleberries, grapes, mangoes, melons, nuts, olives, passionfruit, stonefruit, citrus, strawberries and native fruits.
122 pp
BO115 $10.00 

 

 


Discovering Fruit and Nuts: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation, Uses and Health Benefits of over 300 Food-Producing Plants

Susanna Lyle 2006

Produced in Australia by the CSIRO, this massive book is an inspiration for people to grow and try new foods. It is an extensive guide to temperate and subtropical fruit and nut plants. The A-Z guide presents over 300 species with information on cultivation and propagation, harvesting times and yields, storing and using the produce and the most popular varieties. There is particular emphasis on the nutritional and health benefits of the fruit or nut described. Within these main entries, there are brief descriptions of over 250 similar species, expanding the coverage of the book still further.  Illustrated with colour photos. Hardcover 480pp

BD106 $80.00

 

 

 

 

 


Citrus: A Guide to Organic Management, Propagation, Pruning, Pest Control and Harvesting 

Allen Gilbert 2007

A comprehensive guide to the most popular backyard fruit tree, covering the history of citrus, numerous varieties, propagation, cultivation, pruning, pest and disease control, harvesting & storing fruit. With illustrations and colour photos, it is informative, enjoyable and endlessly useful to the citrus grower.167pp                  

BC119 $30.00

 

 

 

 

 


Citrus: A Gardener’s Guide

Bruce Morphett and Ian Tolley 

Revised edition 2009

This concise guide to growing citrus includes profiles of over 40 citrus varieties and cultivars, many with colour photographs of the fruit. Descriptions of nine commonly-used rootstocks will help the home gardener make plant choices appropriate to their soil type and climate zone.

Nutrition and fertilizers are covered in detail; one of the very useful charts in this book describes the function of each element and symptoms of its deficiency or excess. There’s also information on pests and diseases and suggestions for their control; pruning and shaping; container growing and general care of your trees.

Flowering, fruit development times and fruit maturity period information is particularly aimed at southern temperate Australia. 

76pp

BC135 $20.00 

 


The Australian Fruit and Vegetable Garden                    

Clive Blazey     2006

This comprehensive and practical Australian guide will help you to grow the finest fruit and vegetables in your own backyard. Specific climate and varieties are covered so that your crop will be healthy, flavourful and nutritious. HB 166pp

BA112 $40.00

 

 


Just Nuts

Allen Gilbert 2005

This book is a comprehensive guide to growing nuts in Australia. It covers cultivation, harvesting and use of almond, brazil nut, cashew, chestnut, coconut, hazelnut, macadamia, pecan, pistachio and walnut. It includes propagation and pruning and a section on less well-known nuts such as bunya and ginkgo.

Colour photos, 140 pp

BJ103 $30.00


The Nut Grower's Guide: The Complete Handbook for Producers and Hobbyists

Jennifer Wilkinson 2005

This comprehensive handbook deals with the cultivation, propagation and processing of each of the major nut species (almonds, cashews, chestnuts, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pistachios and walnuts). Guidance is provided on packaging and marketing of nuts in Australia and overseas. 228pp

BN110 $60.00 

 


All About Apples

Allen Gilbert 2001
An excellent & comprehensive Australian guide to the care & cultivation of organic apples. Learn about pruning & management techniques to increase yield, methods of grafting to grow multiple varieties on one tree, pest & disease control & selection of varieties. Suitable for home gardeners & small scale orchardists. 154pp

BA103 $32.00


See also additional fruit growing books:

Tropical Food Gardens: A Guide to  Growing Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables in Tropical and Sub-tropical Climates
 

 

 

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