Growing Healthy Fruit in Spain

Completing a trio of information-packed books on gardening, Clodagh and Dick Handscombe now turn their attention to the joys and pitfalls of growing organic fruit in Spain.

Key items include

• Why it makes sense to grow and eat your own fruit.
• Guidelines for growing fruit in gardens, on terraces and in allotments & orchards.
• Successful management of the climatic, soil and water vagaries of Spain.
• Essential guide to planting, feeding, pruning and pest & disease control.
• Natural, ecological and organic solutions to problems.
• Encouraging children to get involved in growing fruit.
• Tailored English - Spanish vocabulary.

This practical book is the only one dedicated to the home growing of fruit in Spain and will appeal to the beginner and experienced practitioner alike. Additionally, its appeal will extend beyond the Spanish border on account of the wealth of useful and novel ideas contained in it.

Finally, like that of its 'sister' book on vegetables, the publication of Growing Healthy Fruit in Spain is timely as global efforts to encourage increased consumption of fruit gather pace.