- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Kyle Cathie (26 Oct 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856261859
- ISBN-13: 978-1856261852
- Product Dimensions: 26.4 x 19.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,536,962 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dealing with fruit both temperate and tropical, this book provides a history of each species, and details of growing and cultivation, harvesting and storing, and culinary and medicinal and other uses. It includes coverage of balcony, backyard, orchard and greenhouse growing, planning a fruit garden, growing under glass, and using fruitwood for smoking and turning.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The ultimate fruit book!,
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This review is from: Bob Flowerdew's Complete Fruit Book: A Definitive Sourcebook to Growing, Harvesting and Cooking Fruit (Paperback)
This is a truly excellent book. Each fruit is given good coverage, with recommendations as to variety and culture advice. It is also extensive in the range of fruits which are covered. There's even a few recipes thrown in. If you want to grow any sort of fruit then go for this book.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
good book but not enough detail for beginners,
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This review is from: Bob Flowerdew's Complete Fruit Book: A Definitive Sourcebook to Growing, Harvesting and Cooking Fruit (Paperback)
Purchased several books about fruit growing and found RHS Guide more detailed and better planned out.Big fan of Bob's so slightly dissappointed.His book on companion planting however is excellent, a must for the organic grower.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not a complete guide by any means...,
This review is from: Bob Flowerdew's Complete Fruit Book (Hardcover)
Have had this book a while now and although it's nice to look at and seems to cover most of the fruit varieties a gardener would like to grow, it is very lacking in the detail I would have thought a book with the term "complete" in the title ought to cover. For example, the pest and disease information for each fruit is extremely limited: simply a short paragraph with very little information. If you are trying to discover what is wrong with your fruit trees then don't bother looking here. I had to search the internet to discover that the orange spots on my pear tree were (rust) in spite of owning this book. Apparently it's a fairly common problem with pears but wasn't even mentioned in Bob's book. In future I'll stick with my trusty "Fruit Expert" by Dr D G Hessayon. It may not look so pretty, but really is more of a complete guide than this book.
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