Fruit Trees in Small Spaces: Abundant Harvests from Your Own Backyard

Colby Eierman

Timber Press, Jan 1, 2012 - Gardening - 263 pages

Luscious peaches, crisp apples, and sweet plums right off the tree are hard to beat.

For gardeners yearning for the pleasures of home-grown fruit plucked straight from the tree, this deliciously encouraging guide cuts the subject down to size. Colby Eierman, garden designer and fruit expert, shows how trees can easily be tucked into the tiniest spots and still yield a bumper crop of gorgeous fruit.

Fruit Trees in Small Spaces covers everything a gardener needs to know about choosing and nurturing the most delicious small-space varieties, including selection, pruning, training, irrigation, and disease prevention. With inspiring ideas for spaces of all shapes and sizes and creative recipes for your incredible harvest, you'll want to plant a mini-orchard in every intimate corner.

For the gardener with space limitations, bountiful fruit trees are now within arm's reach.

Contents

• Foreword: 7
• Acknowledgments: 9
• Preface: 13
• Introduction: 17
• Home Orchard Primer Designing the Orchard Life: 20
• Fruit Tree Guide The Family Album: 52
• Practicalities Long Live Your Orchard: 172
• Fruit in the Kitchen: 212
• Resources: 244
• Conversion Tables: 246
• Further Reading: 248
• Photo and Illustration Credits: 250
• Index: 251

About the author

Colby Eierman designs and manages diverse garden and farm projects, providing his clients with craft-grown produce of the highest quality. Colby has years of experience working for restaurants, wineries and individuals to create landscapes that are both beautiful and productive. He is co-founder of the School Garden Project in Lane County, Oregon and has built many educational gardens for youth and adult audiences. Colby also raises chickens, cows, sheep and other livestock as part of integrated farm operations.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fruit Trees in Small Spaces: Abundant Harvests from Your Own Backyard
• Author: Colby Eierman
• Photographs by: Erin Kunkel
• Contributor: Mike Emanuel
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Timber Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1604691905, 9781604691900
• Length: 263 pages
• Subjects: Gardening / Fruit; Gardening / Trees