How to Grow Berries and Currants: A Practical Gardening Guide for Great Results, with Step-by-step Techniques and 185 Colour Photographs. This item is unavailable.How to Grow Berries and Currants: A Practical Gardening Guide for Great Results, with Step-by-step Techniques and 185 Colour Photographs

In this kitchen garden handbook, the most popular soft fruits are illustrated with useful information on their origins, growing habits, nutritional content and culinary uses. The second section gives key advice on soil preparation, essential tools, propagation and protecting your fruit bushes. The techniques described include training and supporting fruit bushes, pruning, sheltering plants from the weather and harvesting and storing fruit crops. The section on practical cultivation tells you how to grow all types of berries and currants, whether you have a large kitchen garden, a small garden plot with some space in the borders, or room for a few containers. A must for the novice grower, this book also provides reliable information for the experienced gardener who wants to experiment with new varieties.

Kate Whiteman has been a food writer and editor for almost 30 years. She has translated and edited numerous books for such eminent chefs as Roux borthers, Raymond Blanc and Pierre Koffman, and is herself the author of The Italian Ingredients Cookbook and The World Encyclopedia of Fruit. Richard Bird has contributed to numerous publications and has been magazine editor for Focus on Plants, The Hardy Plant, Alpine Gardening and the Alpine Garden Society's magazine, Bulletin.