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Master the art of growing fruit. From the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this book introduces the best fruit to grow at home and teaches you how to cultivate each plant. With 12 easy and inspiring projects and beautiful botanical illustrations, this is part of the best-selling series of Kew Gardener's Guides, now available in paperback.  This fully and beautifully illustrated guide from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew gives you all the insight, knowledge and advice you will need to master all kinds of fruit growing. Written by Kew expert Kay Maguire, the book contains a full guide to each type of fruit, with tips on where to grow, planting, how to tend to them and the best tricks to get the most out of your crop. From citrus to berries, apples and figs to nuts and melons, all the most delicious fruits are covered in full detail. The book also contains 12 practical projects for readers to follow along with at home, from planting a fig to making quince jelly, growing a melon from seed to making chestnut stuffing. These projects will bring the wonderful world of fruit to life and produce confident, keen growers wanting to expand their experience of growing their own. Perfect for beginners or experienced gardeners alike.  This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles available: Growing House Plants, Growing Herbs, Growing Bulbs, Growing Orchids, Growing Vegetables, Growing Roses, Growing Trees, Growing Cacti and Succulents, Growing Perennials, Growing Shrubs, Growing Alpines.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: growing fruit plant types top fruit root stocks soft fruit need to know garden planning planting training pruning Growing fruit in containers TOP FRUIT Citrus: Lemon (Citrus x limon) Citrus: Orange (Citrus x aurantium) Project 1 Growing citrus in a pot Citrus: Kumquat (Citrus x japonica) Citrus: Citron (Citrus medica) Citrus: Meyer’s lemon (Citrus x limon ‘Meyer’) Quince (Cydonia) Project 2: Making quince jelly Persimmons (diospyros) Loquat (Eriobotrya) Fig (Ficus) Project 3 ​Planting a fig Apple (Malus) Project 3 Step over mini orchard Apple (Malus) pollinating partners Project 4 Family apple tree Crab apple (Malus) Olives (Olea europaea) Cherry family: Apricot (Prunus armeniaca) Cherry (Prunus avium) Gage (Prunus domestica) Almond (Prunus dulcis) Project 5 Making damson gin Damson (prunus insititia) Peach (Prunus persica) Cherry: Nectarine (Prunus persica var. nectarine) Pomegranate (Punica) Pear (Pyrus) Project 6 Perfectly preserved dried fruit Pear (Pyrus) Medlar (Mespilus) Mulberry (Morus) Rosehips (Rosa canina) Project 9 Making rosehip syrup Elder (Sambucus) SOFT FRUIT Kiwi (Actinidia deliciosa) Melons (Cucumis melo) and watermelons Project 7 Growing melons from seed Strawberries (Fragaria) Project 8 Propagating strawberries from runners Wild strawberries Project 9 Growing wild strawberries Goji berries (Lycium barbarum) Myrtle (Myrtis communis) Passion fruit (Passiflora caerulea) Blackcurrants and jostaberry (Ribes nigrum) Blackcurrants and jostaberry (Ribes nigrum) Redcurrants (Ribes rubrum) Pink currants (Ribes rubrum) Gooseberries (Ribes uva-crispa) Blackberries and hybrids (Rubus fruticosus) Blackberries and hybrids (Rubus species) Raspberries (Rubus idaeus) Project 10 Making raspberry fruit leather Blueberries (Vaccinium) inluding bilberry (V. myrtillus) Project 11 Blueberries in a pot Lignonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) Cranberries (Vaccinium oxycoccus) Grapes (Vitis) NUTS  Hazlenut (Coryus avellana) Filbert (Corylus maxima) Walnut (Juglans) Sweet chestnut (Castanaea) Cashewnut (Anacardium occidentale) Project 12 Chestnut stuffing Problems Year programme: spring  Year programme: summer Year programme: autumn Year programme: winter index acknowledgements

About the Author :
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has cultivated plants for more than 250 years. Today, Kew’s horticulturists grow over 19,000 species of plants in the gardens – the most diverse collection in the world. Kay Maguire trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where she gained the Kew Diploma. She is the author of the award-winning RHS Grow Your Own Crops in Pots and is a regular contributor to magazines such as BBC Gardener's World.  Jason Ingram is a Bristol based Photographer specialising in Gardens, Food, People and Interiors.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781805700333
  • Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Frances Lincoln
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 330 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1805700332
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Kew Experts
  • Sub Title: Paperback reissue
  • Width: 160 mm


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