75 Remarkable Fruits For Your Garden

by Jack Staub

In this stunning follow-up to 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden, gardener and garden designer, Jack Staub, brings the same charming detail, quirky and remarkable stories, and lovely writing voice to 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden. After tireless hours of research to bring the most accurate and up-to-date information, as well as the most intriguing facts and historical illuminations 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden provides a history of each plant, thoughts and tips on growing it, and ends with a simple recipe for serving up these mouth-watering fruits in salads, side dishes, breads, and desserts. Fruits Apple 'Ashmead's Kernel' , Blood Banana , Currant 'Pink Champagne' , Boysenberry, Autumn Olive , Fig 'Petite Negra', Grapefruit 'Red Rio', Honeyberry 'Blue Sky', Lime 'Key Lime', Mulberry 'Dwarf Weeping Black' , Persimmon 'Jiro', Prickly Pear 'Burbank' , Rhubarb 'MacDonald', Author Staub is one of the country's leading experts on fruit and vegetable gardening. He frequently lectures on the subject, and his articles have appeared in numerous magazines and print publications, including Country Living, Fine Gardening, and The New York Times. He is also a featured guest on NPR. You can learn more about Jack and Hortulus Farms at

Genres: Gardening, Food, Nonfiction, Nature

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 10, 2008

Reviews

[GoldGato · Rating 5 out of 5]

Va-va-va-voom, this is one pretty book. I mean drop-dead gorgeous. To be honest, I didn't even have a garden when I saw this book. But the cover, the binding, and the drawings changed that.

That's right. This is a GAME-CHANGER BOOK.

The author highlights special varieties of fruits and provides quotes and historical information. Since I purchased this book, I have planted eleven fruit trees, so that should tell you something. And I am not a gardener, but now I read voraciously about soil and seeds and climate. Just because of a book that was sitting askew on a bookstore shelf. If I hadn't seen it, if I had just walked right on by, I could be spending my mornings and evenings watching the telly and getting fat. But no, this book has me out tilling the soil and creating life, while talking to people who walk by and ask 'what the heck kind of fruit is that'? Game-changer.

Book Season = Spring (universe of gold)

[Manintheboat · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book gets 5 stars just for being so beautiful. The fonts, illustrations, and lay out made me gasp with joy.
Additionally, this books is also entertaining, funny, well-written, and informative. Includes the history of the plant, the zone it is grown in, how to care for it, how much and what to do with the produce.

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden by Lee Reich and Vicki Herzfeld Arlein is an excellent companion to this book if you are interested in this subject.

[Aleena Mahmood · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love that this book isn't as formal and dry as an encyclopedia, but is instead told as if the author himself is telling you about the different fruits. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous also and are what caught my eye in the first place.

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is beautiful. I didn't realize when I ordered this book that it was even a hardcover. It's just a subject I wanted to learn more about. I opened the box and found the cover, illustrations, and typeface to be gorgeous. The substance of the book is equally wonderful, apart from a couple pop culture references (a past mayor of DC's extracurricular activities under the chapter on Marionberry, for example). These were entertaining, but didn't quite seem to fit with the classic look of the book. Now my only problem is figuring out what I can actually fit into my garden!