
eBook - ePub
Soft Fruit Growing for the Amateur - What to Plant, How to Prune and Manure, with a Chapter on Nuts, One on Mushrooms and Another on Composting
- 370 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Soft Fruit Growing for the Amateur - What to Plant, How to Prune and Manure, with a Chapter on Nuts, One on Mushrooms and Another on Composting
About this book
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to growing a wide range of fruit and vegetables, with information on what to plant, how to prune and manure, common problems and pitfalls, and much more. Complete with simple instructions and a plethora of useful illustrations, this guide is ideal for the novice grower, and will also be of use to those with more experience as a reference book. Although old, the information contained within this book is timeless, and will be of as much benefit to modern readers as it was to those contemporary with its original publication. The chapters of this guide include: 'An Ounce of Practice is Worth a Ton of Theory', 'Coming Down to Earth', 'On Choosing Nursery Stock', 'Planting Fruit Bushes', 'The Black Current', 'Red and White Currents', 'The Fig', 'Gooseberries', 'Grapes Out of Doors', 'The Raspberry', 'Strawberries', 'The Tomato', and more. We are republishing this vintage text now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned introduction on growing fruit.
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Yes, you can access Soft Fruit Growing for the Amateur - What to Plant, How to Prune and Manure, with a Chapter on Nuts, One on Mushrooms and Another on Composting by Raymond Bush in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Horticulture. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I. An Ounce of Practice
- II. Coming Down to Earth
- III. On Choosing Nursery Stock
- IV. Planting Fruit Bushes
- V. Blackberries, Loganberries and Hybrids
- VI. The Black Currant
- VII. Red and White Currants
- VIII. The Fig
- IX. Gooseberries
- X. Grapes Out of Doors
- XI. The Raspberry
- XII. Strawberries
- XIII. The Tomato
- XIV. Some Oddments
- XV. Nuts: Cob Nuts, Filberts and Walnuts
- XVI. Is Spraying Necessary?
- XVII. Mushrooms
- XVIII. The Whys and Wherefores of Spring Frosts
- XIX. Manuring and Compost Heaps
- Index