Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden

Forget the farmer’s market. Grow your own delicious, organic apples, figs, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries, citrus fruits, and more with Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden. No green thumb required. Even beginners become successful fruit “farmers” with the techniques and advice offered by author Christy Wilhelmi, the force behind the popular gardening website, Gardenerd. Selecting the best small-scale fruit trees, bushes, vines, and plants for your climate, siting them properly, and pruning your compact trees for health and productivity are some of the many topics covered in the pages of this bible of small-space fruit growing. You’ll also discover how to:

  • Turn your urban, suburban, or rural garden into a fruit factory, no matter its size
  • Maximize production from edible container fruit gardens
  • Grow more food in less space
  • Limit your family’s synthetic pesticide consumption
  • Choose varieties with increased disease resistance
  • Select plants that grow well in your climate
  • Maintain your fruiting plants correctly to encourage years of prolific harvests

With modern, dwarf varieties, and help from Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden, a healthy, high-yielding garden filled with fruit-producing plants is possible — even in the smallest of yards.

Cool Springs Press, April 2021
ISBN-13: 9780760370261
192pp.

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06-24-21 Hello Summer!

In this issue: June in the GardenYouTube: Best Seeds to Save for Beginners Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Pest Control TipsGardenerd Product of the Month: Grow Your Own Mini Fruit…

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Wordless Wednesday: Late Spring Garden Excitement

It’s right about the time when tomato plants look like they’re doing something, and we start to see fruit on squash and cucumber plants. Exciting times, gardenerds. All that work is about to pay off. Let’s take a moment to enjoy the progress in our gardens, and savor the late spring garden excitement.

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Podcast: Appetite For Change with Tasha Powell

This week’s guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is an inspiration in every way. Tasha Powell took her own journey toward growing food, and turned it into the community-led non-profit organization now called Appetite for Change, in North Minneapolis, MN.

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05-27-21 May Becomes June

In this issue: May in the GardenYouTube: Pinching Basil - Why, and How to Do it Right Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Battling Blight & Powdery MildewGardenerd Product of the…

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YouTube: Pinching Basil – How to Do It Right and Why

It’s basil season, and to keep your plants growing strong, you need to employ a key garden task: pinching basil. Most gardening books describe how to pinch basil in a way that isn’t quite accurate, or at least, not the best way to do it. Our latest video breaks down how and why to pinch basil.

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