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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 are easy to maintain and make a lovely addition to any home landscape.

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Timed tree pruning plans and simple maintenance guidelines keep your fruit harvest within arm’s reach.

Ideal for Smaller Gardens

Pruning Made Simple

Grow Abundant Fruit

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Storey Publishing, LLC; Illustrated edition (December 30, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1612120547
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1612120546
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.65 x 8.95 inches
Reviewer: Stephanie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Incredible. Go out on a limb!
Review: It's amazing how a tiny idea can plant itself, germinate, and fruit. So just like that I bought some trees, chopped them most of the way down, and now I dream in peach flavored peace.I had studied the idea of backyard orchard culture many years ago and didn't act on it. This year, I did. This book is 100% responsible for the 3 tiny fruit trees in my new orchard. There's actually very little risk and a whole lot to gain.The author is well spoken, knowledgeable, and easy to spend time with. I love this little book!

Reviewer: Sueshoppin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I learned so much
Review: So informative. The very simple logic of this delightful book tells you everything you need to know about growing any little fruit tree.

Reviewer: Asada
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Learned so much!
Review: Got this book as a recommendation. Wasn’t into the cover and was a little skeptical before buying, but wow this book is great! I’m a green-thumb novice and I’m now setting out to turn my urban backyard into a fruit forest. This book has the strategies I needed for our small-ish space.

Reviewer: Petino
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very Interesting, Different Ideas, Poor Packaging/Handling
Review: This book was recommended on a blog post and I was very interested given that I don't live on a farm or have lots of land. It is helpful to people who don't have alot of land, mostly suburban and urban dwellers. It made me think. The author has new ideas but I'm looking forward to trying them. I read the whole thing in an afternoon and then was inspired to want to go outside and try out some of the ideas.This book is more for people who don't already have trees or just bought trees a few months ago. If you already have trees, the book is not terribly helpful as she basically says you can never make your trees small; you just have to tear them out and plant new ones.I'm not sure if the packaging was poor or if the mail service was too rough but the package arrived with two holes ripped open. The book was ok though...good thing it wasn't raining outside when it was delivered.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: very educational
Review: I have a very small space garden and have always thought fruit trees were out of the question.. Thanks to this book I am looking for 2 fruit trees for my garden. The directions are clear and the pictures/ diagrams and very clear. BTW i am very new to gardening.

Reviewer: Kevin Z.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Best Fruit Tree Book
Review: This is the best book in caring fruit trees with revolutionary ideas, which is not covered in most garden books or garden radio shows. Most garden books and the so-called garden gurus recommend pruning fruit trees only in late winter time when trees are in dormancy. Most garden books or gurus just copy-paste or borrowed the old ideas and most people just blindly followed these traditional practices. Based on my learning from this book, I will prune my peach/ apricot/pear trees around summer solstice! Another useful information from this book is that you can prune your trees any time of the year. Of course, winter pruning and summer-solstice-pruning are the recommended. Growing fruit trees as close as 1.5 feet apart is another take-home message from this book.

Reviewer: Kat
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A very nice book
Review: I really appreciate books with personality. This one has one..... Great pictures and color! Pages were a good feel.I originally bought it as a birthday gift for someone and while she didn't give any feedback about it..... I thought it was a nice book for someone wanting to start out planting fruit trees. This book inspired me. 😉

Reviewer: Megan Ragsdale
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for mini orchard info
Review: Explained pruning in a fantastic and understandable way. I do wish it went into more different tree info and grafting but other than that, definitely a great book

Reviewer: woodsprite
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great book. Very informative and useful.

Reviewer: M. F.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very interesting and instructive. A few diagrams would be helpful, but I guess you just have to trust your instructs.

Reviewer: Wendy Honnor
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is such a good little book. I am a fruit tree novice. It has been super helpful.

Reviewer: PIYALI
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good tips

Reviewer: HK
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A very interesting book with clear instructions and lovely photographs. The idea is to grow trees to your own head or shoulder height so that they are easy to reach for pruning and picking and produce beautiful healthy fruit. I bought it two years ago and have planted and pruned trees by this method since then and it is working out well. It has meant that I can grow many more trees in a small space than I would have ever thought possible and therefore I can have more variety as well. The pruning method is not difficult at all and you can use trees grown on any rootstock, not necessarily the dwarfing ones, in face it can be better to use those with a more vigorous root.It is an excellent book that I heartily recommend.