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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
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