The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Fruit

Description

A combination of botanical beauty and practical advice in The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Fruit will inspire beginners and experienced growers to love and grow their own fruit.

This fully and beautifully illustrated guide from Kew Royal Botanical Gardens' fruit expert Kay Maguire gives you all the insight, knowledge and advice you will need to master all kinds of fruit growing.

The book contains a full guide to each type of fruit, with tips on where to grow, planting, how to tend to them and the best tricks to get the most out of your crop. From citrus to berries, apples and figs to nuts and melons, all the most delicious fruits are covered in full detail.

The book also contains 12 projects for readers to follow along with at home, from planting a fig to making quince jelly, growing a melon from seed to making chestnut stuffing.

These projects will bring the wonderful world of fruit to life and produce confident, keen growers wanting to expand their experience of growing their own.

The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Fruit is part of the Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing series and is accompanied by Growing Herbs, Growing House Plants, Growing Vegetables, Growing Orchids and Growing Bulbs. 

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has cultivated plants for more than 250 years. Today, Kew’s horticulturists grow over 19,000 species of plants in the gardens – the most diverse collection in the world.

Introduction: growing fruit
plant types
top fruit
root stocks
soft fruit
need to know
garden planning
planting
training
pruning
Growing fruit in containers
TOP FRUIT
Citrus: Lemon (Citrus x limon)
Citrus: Orange (Citrus x aurantium)
Project 1 Growing citrus in a pot
Citrus: Kumquat (Citrus x japonica)
Citrus: Citron (Citrus medica)
Citrus: Meyer’s lemon (Citrus x limon ‘Meyer’)
Quince (Cydonia)
Project 2: Making quince jelly
Persimmons (diospyros)
Loquat (Eriobotrya)
Fig (Ficus)
Project 3 ​Planting a fig
Apple (Malus)
Project 3 Step over mini orchard
Apple (Malus) pollinating partners
Project 4 Family apple tree
Crab apple (Malus)
Olives (Olea europaea)
Cherry family: Apricot (Prunus armeniaca)
Cherry (Prunus avium)
Gage (Prunus domestica)
Almond (Prunus dulcis)
Project 5 Making damson gin
Damson (prunus insititia)
Peach (Prunus persica)
Cherry: Nectarine (Prunus persica var. nectarine)
Pomegranate (Punica)
Pear (Pyrus)
Project 6 Perfectly preserved dried fruit
Pear (Pyrus)
Medlar (Mespilus)
Mulberry (Morus)
Rosehips (Rosa canina)
Project 9 Making rosehip syrup
Elder (Sambucus)
SOFT FRUIT
Kiwi (Actinidia deliciosa)
Melons (Cucumis melo) and watermelons
Project 7 Growing melons from seed
Strawberries (Fragaria)
Project 8 Propagating strawberries from runners
Wild strawberries
Project 9 Growing wild strawberries
Goji berries (Lycium barbarum)
Myrtle (Myrtis communis)
Passion fruit (Passiflora caerulea)
Blackcurrants and jostaberry (Ribes nigrum)
Blackcurrants and jostaberry (Ribes nigrum)
Redcurrants (Ribes rubrum)
Pink currants (Ribes rubrum)
Gooseberries (Ribes uva-crispa)
Blackberries and hybrids (Rubus fruticosus)
Blackberries and hybrids (Rubus species)
Raspberries (Rubus idaeus)
Project 10 Making raspberry fruit leather
Blueberries (Vaccinium) inluding bilberry (V. myrtillus)
Project 11 Blueberries in a pot
Lignonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)
Cranberries (Vaccinium oxycoccus)
Grapes (Vitis)
NUTS 
Hazlenut (Coryus avellana)
Filbert (Corylus maxima)
Walnut (Juglans)
Sweet chestnut (Castanaea)
Cashewnut (Anacardium occidentale)
Project 12 Chestnut stuffing
Problems
Year programme: spring 
Year programme: summer
Year programme: autumn
Year programme: winter
index
acknowledgements

Additional information

Dimensions	0.75 × 6.75 × 8.5 in
Series	Kew Experts
Imprint	Frances Lincoln
Format	General Trade
ISBN-13	09780711239371
ISBN-10	0711239371
Audience	General / adult
BISAC	GAR027020, HOM013000
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