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Hardy Apples: Growing Apples in Cold Climates
By (author) Robert Osborne, By (photographer) Beth Powning
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An essential guide to growing apples at high latitudes and altitudes. Hardy Apples is both a practical guide and a loving tribute to the wonderful abundance and diversity of apple cultivars available to the northern gardener and orchardist. Full of tips, facts, beautiful photographs and fascinating stories about apples both popular and obscure, this book is sure to inform and entertain in equal measure. Drawing on over 40 years of experience propagating and selling apple cultivars from his nursery in New Brunswick, Canada, author Bob Osborne walks you through the basics of how an apple tree grows and the ideal conditions needed to cultivate a successful crop. Osborne also includes vital information about planting, pruning, harvesting, storing, and propagating apples and devotes an entire chapter to preventing and dealing with the pests and diseases that plague so many growers, plus the challenges of hard winters and unpredictable weather. Following the section on growing apples is an extensive catalogue of over 90 apple cultivars. Here are just a few of the apples you will find: Ashmead’s Kernel, Bottle Greening, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Fameuse, Red Astrachan, Seek-No-Further. Each profile features a brief history and description of the apple as well as information and photos to help identify cultivars you might already have in your garden. With the growing popularity of cider making, Osborne includes a special section dedicated to excellent cultivars that cideries should seek out. The guide also features hardiness zone maps, resources and a handy table of hardy cultivars, a great at-a-glance reference when shopping for trees. With over 200 exquisite colour photographs and illustrations, Hardy Apples is an elegant, educational and entertaining reference that is equally at home atop a coffee table or a propagator’s station.
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Publisher | Firefly Books Ltd
Published date | 30 May 2022
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 224
Dimensions | 255 x 203 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-2281-0318-9
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BISAC | gardening / fruit
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