Fruits and Berries for the Home Garden

This no-nonsense guide to home fruit growing is now completely revised and updated. Lewis Hill writes with clarity, enthusiasm, and the authority gained from over 45 years of growing fruits, nuts, and berries. Basic enough for novices and comprehensive enough for more experienced growers, the book features -- Recommendations about new, improved fruit cultivars -- Effective and environmentally sound advice on how to fertilize plantings and control pests and diseases -- Complete information about what fruit to grow and where -- Recommendations on improving the soil, planting, pruning, thinning, and other year-round maintenance --Suggestions for harvesting, preserving, and storageHill, Lewis is the author of 'Fruits and Berries for the Home Garden', published 1992 under ISBN 9780882667645 and ISBN 0882667645.