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This colorful illustrated guide to growing fruit trees at home provides detailed information on all aspects of amateur orchard keeping. Beginning with an overview of orchard principles and history, the volume covers site selection, planting processes, irrigation and fertilization, pruning and weeding, pest control and other optimization and troubleshooting topics, and harvesting, fruit preservation and produce uses. Additional chapters discuss extending...
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Grow your own apples, figs, plums, cherries, pears, apricots, and peaches in even the smallest backyard! Ann Ralph shows you how to cultivate small yet abundant fruit trees using a variety of specialized pruning techniques. With dozens of simple and effective strategies for keeping an ordinary fruit tree from growing too large, you'll keep your gardening duties manageable while at the same time reaping a bountiful harvest. These little fruit trees...
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Sherri Brooks Vinton, the best-selling author of Put 'em Up!, turns her preserving and cooking talents to fruit, offering 80 recipes for canning, refrigerating, freezing, drying, and infusing. The exciting range of possibilities includes preserves both sweet (Orange Curd, Pear and Honey Preserves) and savory (Peach BBQ Mop, Meyer Lemon Gastrique). To ensure that your jars, bottles, and freezer bags are promptly opened and enjoyed, Sherri also provides...
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Cooks of all skill levels will love these 150 recipes for simple sides, breakfasts, dinners, and healthful desserts that make the most of fresh, accessible produce, from memory-boosting blackberries to antimicrobial chili peppers to vitamin A - rich watermelon. Featuring health and nutritional information, tips for buying and storage, quick recipe riffs, and gorgeous shots of finished dishes as well as photographs of individual fruits and vegetables,...
10) Grow fruit
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DK Publishing
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2016.
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Enjoy growing more than 50 types of fruit-from berries and soft to citrus and more-including rare varieties, The taste of your own just-picked fruit is unbeatable. Whether you have a large garden or just room for some pots, Grow Fruit has advice on the easiest-to-grow and most prolific varieties for your site and conditions. With step-by-step sequences, planting calendars, care tips, and gardener's know-how, Grow Fruit has all the practical advice...
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In Liana Krissoff's breakout success, Canning for a New Generation, home cooks were introduced to a hip, modern guide to canning, chock-full of approachable, time-tested, and accurate recipes, as well as intriguing new flavor pairings. In this Updated and Expanded Edition, Krissoff includes 50 new recipes for food preservation in addition to her favorites, including:
• Brandied Cherries
• Peach Salsa
• Strawberry Jam
• Honeyed Bread and Butter...
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Kyle Books
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2016.
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"Sweet cherries, juicy oranges, succulent strawberries, tongue-tingling limes - everyone has a favorite fruit, though too often many of us just eat it as it comes, or stick to classics such as apple crumble. In this inspiring collection of seasonal recipes, Annie Rigg offers 120 original, exciting and tempting ways to enjoy the orchard's bounty. Whether introducing a splash of color to your plate or providing the perfect tangy countertaste to a rich...
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Millbrook Press
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©2011
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Brian Cleary's zany rhyming text introduces young readers to foods in the fruits group, including bananas, plums, grapefruits, and kiwis. Cleary also introduces the health benefits of these foods and provides information on how many servings of fruits the USDA recommends.
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Growing your own food is a hot topic today because of the high cost of transporting food long distances; the heightened problem of diseases caused by commercially grown foods, concerns of the overuse of chemicals in mass food production, and the uncertain health effects of GMOs. Many people-from White House executives to inner-city kids-have recently discovered the benefits of homegrown vegetables and fruits. Community gardens, and even community...
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Winner — IACP 2019 Reference & Technical Cookbook Award
From apples and oranges to pawpaws and persimmons
"Sara Bir's voice is quirky, informed, and fresh. The Fruit Forager's Companion will push any soul who is interested in foraging into the curious world of fruits. . . . You want someone with passion and appetite to lead you on a foraging quest, and Sara has plenty of both."—Deborah
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"Capturing the peak flavor of freshly harvested produce and preserving it for year-round eating is easier than ever with this guide to freezing and enjoying more than 55 popular fruits and vegetables. Author Crystal Schmidt shares her preparation techniques to prepare each food for the freezer, including pre-cooking, slicing, blanching and more"--
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Firefly Books
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2016
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"This new edition of the classic reference, Vegetable, Herbs and Fruit is updated in design and expanded by 60 pages, covering a total of over 70 vegetables, 100 herbs and 100 popular fruits. The most current information on plant varieties and cultivation techniques make it the essential sourcebook for all food gardeners, especially for anyone who would like to start gowing their own produce, who feels they could use some expert advice." --
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