The Apple Grower Revised: Guide for the Organic Orchardist Author: Michael Phillips | Language: English | ISBN:
B0068SB8OU | Format: EPUB
The Apple Grower Revised: Guide for the Organic Orchardist Description
Apples represent “organic’s final frontier” formany backyard and commercial growers.The number of insect pests and diseases that canplague this popular fruit have made a completelyorganic approach seemingly next to impossible.Yet despite the challenges, it is possible togrow healthy, flavorful apples with little or noneed for synthetic chemicals. In The AppleGrower, author and organic orchardist MichaelPhillips combines the forgotten wisdom of ourgreat-grandparents with the best research andtechniques available today.Since it first appeared in 1998, this book hasbeen widely acclaimed as the gold standard foranyone who wants to grow apples wisely andnaturally. This new, colorful, fully revised andexpanded edition features much new informationon cutting-edge topics.
- File Size: 6555 KB
- Print Length: 360 pages
- Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing; Enlarged 2nd edition (November 16, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0068SB8OU
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist
by Michael Phillips, 320 pages, 8x10, softcover, 2nd
edition. Whether you consider yourself to be a novice
or an experienced orchardist, if you want to grow
apples organically, this is the book for you. For many
decades apples were high in toxic residues, but
thankfully, that is finally changing. A great deal of
research is underway on lessening the use of synthetic
poisons in the orchard. The results in the past few
years are heartening. Since The Apple Grower first
appeared seven years ago two important products for
the organic orchardist, Surround and Entrust, have
become available. It is now quite possible to grow
very decent apples organically. This revised and
expanded version includes apple growing basics from A
to Z, as well as the latest research and strategies
for successful organic orcharding. A lot of us have
been begging Michael to update his book and we're
thrilled with the result. He has read the studies,
done the interviews, tested the products and found an
effective way a way to organize the information and
communicate it to the rest of us. Even if you already
have the first edition, you still need this
substantial revision.
By Fedco Trees
I LOVE this book.
I'm particularly impressed with the density of information: too many hobby farm/small farm books take a once-over-lightly approach, but this one is deep on detail. I also appreciate the discussion of seedling trees: typically I've seen them ignored or dismissed as irrelevant. The discussion of root stock is a help too; before this I've seen it only discussed in terms of it's limiting factor on size, but this also introduces issues of hardiness and climate appropriateness. The book is incredibly thorough while reminding the reader that there are no "cook books" to growing organic orchards, it's still an art and science that is being developed.
I spent the first few years of my life on an old-fashioned orchard and have never recovered. Now, after 30 big-city, corporate years the world is circling back to the kind of orchard I've always longed to have, and this book is filled with invaluable information on how to proceed. Next year I'm headed back to the country, this book in hand, to make a home and create a backyard cider orchard. I know it's hard work and the best of it may happen after I'm gone, but this book gives me the courage to begin and information to guide me as I figure it out.
I hope within 5 - 10 years I'll be toasting the author with my own apple cider!
By Lynetta Anne
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