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The Ten-Minute Gardener's Fruit-Growing Diary (Ten Minute Gardeners Diary)

The Ten-Minute Gardener's Fruit-Growing Diary (Ten Minute Gardeners Diary)

by ValBourne (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

    $3.25
Synopsis

What are the key tasks for each month that the time-pressed fruit gardener should do to ensure success? Which fruits should you grow and which varieties will guarantee both quantity and quality? What are the most important things you need to know to make your crop blight-free, healthy and plentiful? Pithy, practical and purposeful - for anyone who loves their plot but is forced to garden in snatched moments - this handy diary, together with its sister volumes The Ten-Minute Gardener's Flower-Growing Diary and The Ten-Minute Gardener's Vegetable-Growing Diary , is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand, and is the perfect answer to a prayer.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Bantam Press
Published: 29 Sep 2011
ISBN 10: 0593066707
ISBN 13: 9780593066706
Book Overview: Essential tasks and tips for each month for the time-constrained gardener by the Daily Telegraph's 'Ten Minute Gardener' columnist.

Media Reviews
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book which explains both soft and top fruit growing in the simplest of terms. Many gardeners think that fruit growing in the allottment or garden can be difficult which it most certainly is not - particularly where pruning is concerned. In this book Val has managed to turn a sometimes daunting subject into one that is eminently enjoyable. I recommend this book to everyone who would like to grow fruit in their allotment or garden -- Gerry Edwards, organic Fruit Grower and Chairman of the RHS Fruit Committee
Author Bio
Val Bourne has been a fanatical gardener since the age of 5. In her twenties she worked in vegetable research and she has always grown her own fruit and vegetables without chemical use. She has a large allotment and fruit and vegetable patches amongst her extensive flower garden in the Cotswolds. Val serves on two RHS panels which meet fortnightly to assess the Dahlias and floral trials. She lectures nationwide and in Japan and South African. She writes regularly for the Crocus website and for the following publications: Daily Telegraph, Saga, Oxford Times, Grow It, Hardy Plant Society magazine; Homes and Gardens, The English Garden, RHS The Garden, The Rose Magazine. The Natural Gardener won the Gardening Writer's Guild (GWG)Practical Book of the Year in 2004 and her books have been shortlisted for major GWG prizes for New/Practical and Inspirational.