Successful Berry Growing: How to Plant Prune Pick and Preserve Bush and Vine Fruits

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A garden without berries is like spring without flowers. But with ever-increasing prices at grocery stores and markets berries have sadly become a rare treat for most people. Successful Berry Growing is a book to solve this problem for good! A lifelong organic farmer homesteader and student of everything agricultural Gene Logsdon knows a thing or two about growing berries. And although Successful Berry Growing is geared to the small-scale or family operation the information inside is useful for growing berries on any scale. You ll learn how to: Optimize your soil for berry growing Choose the right berry varieties for your climate Properly plant and prune your berry plants Keep your plants healthy and disease-free With detailed information on cultivating strawberries raspberries blueberries blackberries grapes currants gooseberries cranberries elderberries huckleberries and more Successful Berry Growing is all you need to grow nature s most delicious candy in your own backyard! Gene Logsdon and his wife Carol have a small-scale experimental farm in Wyandot County Ohio. Gene is the author of numerous books and magazine articles on farm-related issues and believes sustainable pastoral farming is the solution for our stressed agricultural system. Readers interested in related titles from Eugene Logsdon will also want to see: Gene Logsdon s Practical Skills (ISBN: 1626545952) Getting Food From Water (ISBN: 1626545987) Homesteading (ISBN: 1626545960) Organic Orcharding (ISBN: 1626545790) Two Acre Eden (ISBN: 1626545820).