Fruit and Nuts: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation, Uses and Health Benefits of over 300 Food-Producing Plants

Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0881927597
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
Average Customer Review: (From 3 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description:
An informative and comprehensive guide to growing and using more than 300 species of fruits and nuts, this A-Z reference will inspire gardeners to grow and use a wider variety of edible plants. Each entry includes a brief history, detailed description, and authoritative information on propagation, as well as helpful advice about harvesting times and methods, cultivation and location needs, pruning, pests and diseases, nutrition and health benefits, and medicinal uses. An extensive, annotated list of cultivars will help gardeners and growers select the most appropriate plants for their location and needs. Suitable for home gardeners, horticulture professionals, orchardists, and nutritionists.

Customer Reviews

Immeasurably Informative by Alex
This product is everything it advertises to be and more, simply a must have for any fruit enthusiast. The book is very reader friendly and is filled with an enormous amount of information regarding the nature, use, and the benefits of more than 300 plants. Another wonderful feature of it is the amount of high quality photographs used to facilitate the flow of information seamlessly, so that nothing is left to uncertainty. A person would be hard pressed to procure the kind of knowledge provided by this book elsewhere. I definitely recommend it to anyone who is even remotely interested by exotic fruits.

Great reference book by FloridaGuy
I’m into all kinds exotic fruits. This book is actually one of my favorite reference books. It describes 300 or so fruits in plain language yet comprehensive. Scientific names, cultivars, and common names are listed making this book very useful. Each plant article divided into separate sections with heading, which makes it easy to find the information. Food, health and other uses are highlighted. The book provides very important info regarding hardiness (not easy to find this info everywhere and this is important when deciding what to grow), growing conditions, sun/shade, water requirements, etc. Many high-quality photos. Will definitely recommend this book as exotic fruit reference.

Could be improved by Gene_WashDC
Physically the book is attractive with nice layout, color photographs, calendar paper, and sewn binding. Timber Press usually does well in this regard. It’ll make for an interesting winter-time diversion. It brings to mind another Timber Press book, “Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden” by Lee Reich. Both books seem to target the backyard orchard enthusiast. “Fruit & Nuts” is much more encyclopedic in organization, style and number of fruits covered (i.e. many tropical/subtropical entries). Mr. Reich’s book focuses on a few, less-common fruits that can be grown in temperate areas, so his would be the better choice for the average enthusiast in most areas of the U.S.

Weaknesses with “Fruit & Nuts”: Minor ones: wish Fahrenheit instead of Celsius had been used for the North American edition - I find having to do the converting to be annoying; and the cultivar lists for each entry are short and underdeveloped. More serious are several errors (both of omission and commission) I saw in the Ficus carica entry (a tree that I’m fairly well acquainted with). I won’t enumerate them here, but makes me wonder if just as many errors were made with the fruits that I’m not so familiar with.