The Backyard Orchardist: A complete guide to growing fruit trees in the home garden, 2nd Edition Paperback – November 23, 2015

In my extensive research into available orchard varieties for a particuliar zone this book came up repeatedly as THE resource for home orchardists. It is very comprehensive. It is also very dry. I will definitely use as a reference over and over. Saying that I would really have appreciated a book with photos of examples of diseases and pests. Line drawings are pretty useless. There are also a lot of new varieties avavilable that are not listed in this book. I am guessing new ones become available every year. I would wish that some day someone will rewrite this book with photos of a bare root delivered tree, the hole, the planting, the tree after it is pruned back, first year, second year, etc. Now that would be worth every penny.

This is a great book if you love to grow fruit trees. My husband is always in the garden and ventures out with new plants. He was very happy to read all of the great info inside.

The book was ordered on December 14th. It arrived 3 days after Christmas. It was intended as a gift for my son. The fact that it arrived so late just turned me off to the entire purchase. I believe that the seller had more than adequate time to have the book arrive before the 25th of December.

Author gives you some great map information; however with them not in color, they are useless as one is unable to decifer info without the color codes. Very disappointment from this author.

IT is above my expectations. So very happy i found this. i would recommend this book to anyone wiht a back yard orchard.

Exelent book and very much up to its standard.Gives ideas how to solv various problem in bacckyard growing.

Some good basic information. I'm planting fruit trees for the first time and following the book season by season

great book

not really suitable for the uk. its an american book really

Absolutely brilliant