FRUIT TREES FOR EVERY GARDEN

Written by the long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz, this substantial, authoritative, and beautiful full-color guide covers everything you need to know about organically growing happy, healthy fruit trees.

You haven't truly experienced flavor until you've eaten fruit fresh out of hand in your own garden. You want perfectly crisp apples? Sweet, juicy pears? Or how about varieties that can never be found in the store? For more than 40 years, Orin Martin has taught thousands of students, apprentices, and gardeners the art and craft of growing fruit trees.
In Fruit Trees for Every Garden, he shares--with wisdom and humor--his recommended fruit varieties and the keys to selecting, planting, growing, and tending productive trees, including apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, nectarine, cherry, orange, lemon, fig, and more. Orin covers ideal tree placement, soil, compost, cover crops, fertilizer, watering, pruning, pests and disease, increasing biodiversity, and much more, all paired with clear illustrations, full-color photography, and evocative intaglio etchings by artist Stephanie Martin for a striking yet practical guide that you will both treasure and turn to for years to come.

ORIN MARTIN is manager of the three-acre Alan Chadwick Garden (home of 600 fruit trees) at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Farming Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and manager of the orchard at UCSC's Farm & Garden. Since 1977, he has taught classes, lectures, and workshops to thousands of gardeners and budding farmers.
His daughter, MANJULA MARTIN, is a writer, managing editor of Zoetrope magazine, and editor of the book Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living.
STEPHANIE MARTIN is a painter and printmaker living on the California coast with her husband, Orin Martin. Her intaglio etchings depict the flora and avifauna of her native landscape.