Successful Berry Growing

<p>A garden without berries is like spring without flowers. But with ever-increasing prices at grocery stores and markets berries have sadly become a rare treat for most people. <i>Successful Berry Growing</i> is a book to solve this problem for good!</p><p>A lifelong organic farmer homesteader and student of everything agricultural Gene Logsdon knows a thing or two about growing berries. And although <i>Successful Berry Growing</i> is geared to the small-scale or family operation the information inside is useful for growing berries on any scale. You'll learn how to:<ul><li>Optimize your soil for berry growing</li><li>Choose the right berry varieties for your climate</li><li>Properly plant and prune your berry plants</li><li>Keep your plants healthy and disease-free</li></ul><p>With detailed information on cultivating strawberries raspberries blueberries blackberries grapes currants gooseberries cranberries elderberries huckleberries and more <i>Successful Berry Growing</i> is all you need to grow nature's most delicious candy in your own backyard! </p><p><b>Gene Logsdon</b> and his wife <b>Carol</b> have a small-scale experimental farm in Wyandot County Ohio. Gene is the author of numerous books and magazine articles on farm-related issues and believes sustainable pastoral farming is the solution for our stressed agricultural system.</p><p>Readers interested in related titles from Eugene Logsdon will also want to see: Gene Logsdon's Practical Skills (ISBN: 1626545952) Getting Food From Water (ISBN: 1626545987) Homesteading (ISBN: 1626545960) Organic Orcharding (ISBN: 1626545790) Two Acre Eden (ISBN: 1626545820).</p>