Grow Fruit - Essential Know-How and Expert Advice for Gardening Success

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ISBN
9780744069563
Grade 5-AD
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Product Overview

  • A perfect resource for budding green thumbs—filled with beautiful photographs, guidance, and tips!
  • Open-and-go resource covering planting, tending, and harvesting fruit trees, bushes, canes, and vines
  • An accessible and practical gardening guide for first time or lifelong gardeners!

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What fruit can even grow where I live!? A question I never thought I would ask myself. The DK Grow Fruit resource helps answer this question and provides guidance and tips on how best to plant, grow, maintain, and harvest over 40 different varieties of fruit! The first section is dedicated to planning, prepping, planting, pests, pruning, pots, protecting, final produce, and expanding. Setting the groundwork to manage and grow your fruit varieties with confidence and care. The following three sections go into detail over fruit tree, bush, cane, and vine varieties—the best time and place to grow them, how to tend for them while growing, the different varieties of each fruit, and when to harvest. Important to note that this guidance is based on UK climate distinctives, so zones and peak times may differ slightly from where you are located. After flipping through these pages, you and your little gardeners may feel inspired to grow new and exotic fruits at home! 144 pages, softcover. ~Rebecca 

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Product Format:Paperback Book
Grades:5-AD
Brand:DK Children
Author:Holly Farrell
ISBN:9780744069563
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