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| How to Grow Your Own Nuts: Choosing, Cultivating and Harvesting Nuts in Your Garden |
' From planting to harvesting, selection to storage, and pruning to pest control, you'll find the answers here. Complete with a thorough and lovingly illustrated guide to 19 species of nuts for the temperate world, this book sets a new standard for a vital but little-known field.
If we must transform our agriculture to build soil and store carbon, then nut trees belong in all our futures. --Peter Bane, author of The Permaculture HandbookHow to Grow Your Own Nuts is the best guide I've seen to home and small-farm nut growing for the temperate climates, featuring species selection, cultivating, harvest, and processing.
It includes many lesser-known species alongside standards like walnut, chestnut, and hazel. This is an essential guide to production of these perennial staple crops. --Eric Toensmeier, permaculturist, author and lecturer at Yale UniversityA beautifully presented, clear, comprehensive bible from the man who knows more than anyone about growing nuts in the UK.
Full of inspiration and information. It's a great book. --Mark Diacono, gardener, food writer and broadcaster About the Author Martin is a true pioneer and his work deserves respect and celebration.
- Permaculture Magazine Martin Crawford is a frontiersman, a pioneering teacher and an inspiration. Both his work and his garden are national treasures. - Chris Nichols, Director of the Ashridge MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility. Martin Crawford is a garden writer and founder of the Agroforestry Research Trust. He teaches courses on Forest Gardening and Growing Nut Crops. His book Creating a Forest Garden - is considered the forest gardening 'bible' and his How to Grow Perennial Vegetables, is highly popular among practical gardeners.
This comprehensive book covers all aspects of growing, harvesting, processing and using nuts, based on forest gardening principles. Filled with gorgeous images of trees and nuts of different varieties, this book is a treat for any gardener. Nuts covered include old favourites such as chestnuts, hazelnuts and walnuts, as well as less common varieties such as pine nuts, hickories, butternuts and monkey puzzle nuts.
Whether you are planning to grow nuts at home or commercially, this book is essential reading.
Consumer review about How to Grow Your Own Nuts: Choosing, Cultivating and Harvesting Nuts in Your Garden :
Another clearly written informative book by the country's leading expert on Forest gardening.I bought this after attending Martin Crawford's course on growing Nut trees and this book enhanced the excellent course notes with its illustrations and layout.I've used the book to pass on enthusiasm about nut growing in orchards which is beginning to expand in England alongside vineyards, and community orchards.(Read more)
How to Grow Your Own Nuts: Choosing, Cultivating and Harvesting Nuts in Your Garden
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