The Complete Book of Fruit Growing in Australia
Gardening Botany Reference Organic Gardening Sustainable Agriculture Fruit Growing Australian Horticulture Home Orchard
The Complete Book of Fruit Growing in Australia, 2nd edition (1997, Hachette Australia) is the most comprehensive single-volume reference for anyone who wants to harvest sun-ripened fruit from their own backyard, orchard or balcony. Across 400 heavily illustrated pages, the late Louis Glowinski—Australia’s best-known temperate-zone fruit authority—distils decades of hands-on experience into step-by-step guidance for more than 200 species and cultivars, from apples and apricots to finger limes, feijoas and jaboticaba. Every variety is matched to Australia’s distinct micro-climates, so you know whether a ‘Dwarf Wurtz’ avocado will fruit in a Melbourne courtyard or which low-chill peach thrives in subtropical Queensland.
What sets this trade-paperback apart is its rare blend of rigorous horticultural science and utterly practical advice. Glowinski explains soil preparation, pH balancing, espalier pruning, grafting, pollination groups, biological pest control and even backyard drying techniques, all in plain English and augmented by hundreds of sharp colour photographs and botanical line drawings. The 2nd edition adds updated cultivar lists, new dwarf rootstocks for small gardens, and organic solutions that modern gardeners demand. Readers return to this book year after year for its month-by-month orchard calendar and quick-diagnosis pest tables that save crops before damage spreads.
Collectors and keen gardeners prize this 1997 printing because later reprints trimmed page count and dropped many rare fruit entries. The copy offered here is clean, tight and unmarked—no ex-library stamps, inscriptions, highlighting or dog-eared corners—making it an excellent shelf-worthy edition. At 45 oz and 10.3 × 7.3 inches it is substantial, yet the lay-flat trade paperback format stays open when you are checking spray schedules or pruning angles outdoors. With ISBN 9780850918700 now long out of print, secure this second-edition classic while it is still available and enjoy decades of faultless, fruit-laden harvests.
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