Growing Berries - How To Grow And Preserve Berries: Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Blueberries, Gooseberries, Redcurrants, Blackcurrants & Whitecurrants. (Food Preservation)

Excellent must have book for any PERSON WHO WANTS TO GROW BERRIES, BE YOU:City dweller with patio/deck,Homesteader,Small wannabe farmer!Many money saving tips that you need to do anyway to protect your garden, fertilize it, etc PLUSHOW TO INVEST IN 1-2 PLANTS AND TURN THEM IT A WHOLE GARDEN! 1 blueberry plant becomes 3-5 plants-- every year! You can this method to a few plants to turn them into rows and rows of CROPS!Great for organic, natural methods for person who wants to avoid Chemicals or JUST WANTS TO SAVE MONEY!!!Companion growing methods are both space-savers and money-savers! Why pay for added nitrogen products when you can just plant beans and get 2nd crop!Bug repellants range from growing garlic as companion plant-- who wouldn't want free garlic! AND how to use garlic and lemon-infused water sprays-- AGAIN, cheap!Includes detailed instructions for keeping plants safe from bugs, diseases, birds-- most over-lap with the things you'lll already being doing for your companion planting or adding natural, cheap organic bugspray/fungus control-- meaning same work gets mutliple jobs done!Includes building designs (full instructiins & pictures) for making your own cheap containers, vertical frames, frames for bird netting to protect your plants. No more losing half your crop or more to pests!Last, includes recipes for what to do with your left over yield.must have read. if you buy one garden book, this is the one (and I have the useless, stupid bookshelf of books to prove it-- maybe they can work as mulch--LOL)

I found a great deal of information to start using and growing several kinds of berries. Recipes are easy to follow.

Found some good information about the upkeep of the berries I already have. I also found new information on planting new ones this year.

I wanted to know more about how to prepare the soil.

This book answered each and every one of my questions about growing berries of all kinds. In the past, I tried and failed, especially with my favorites: strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. No more fails! -- now I know how, and can enjoy the home-grown goodness the year around. No more purchasing days-old berries at the grocery store: pick 'em, freeze 'em -- or turn them into preserves. Thank you, Mr. Paris!

I really liked the fact that all 3 currant plants were included as well as gooseberries. The chutney recipes are a bonus as I wouldn't have thought of using currents to make these even tho I was grown-up in a family where even the men helped with the canning

This book covered most of the material I needed but did not cover pruning of berries to any great extent

Nowhere in the description of this book does it say the author is located in the U.K., thus his advice is useless here in my Zone 6B in Virginia. Not that there was much 'advice' given; mostly just opinions.

Easy to read and used for reference a lot of times for my fruit bushes. I wouldn't be without it.

I was looking for a book which would give me some more detailed insight into growing berry bushes. Most books are very broad oriented and only provide general tips on specific plants. As I have been gardening for a few years, most of these generals ideas are not new to me. So I was very disappointed to see the very same basic tips and nothing more in this more specific book.I can see some value for a beginning gardener, however, even as a beginner you may as well buy the general books which have the same tips and tricks, but also for other types of plants. All in all for me this means I would not recommend this book to anyone except a complete beginner who already knows he or she is only/mostly interested in growing berries.

Very impressed with this, so much information. Well worth the money

This is an excellent book on growing soft fruit. It covers everything you need to know, from propagation to preserving, and not a chemical in sight. Particularly interesting for me, were the sections on companion planting and home-made organic sprays.

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