The Backyard Orchardist sets out to describe all aspects of establishing and running a small orchard, from choosing a site to planting, harvesting, and storing the fruit.
The book covers all the forms of trained apple tree that the gardener is likely to need, including standards, bushes, cordons, fans, espaliers, and central leader forms such as the pyramid and spindlebush - the latter being very useful for the home orchardist. The diagrams are clear, and the year-by-year tasks of forming a trained fruit tree are carefully explained. In practice, there is no substitute for learning these skills hands-on with an expert, but this book is the next best thing. Christopher Brickell was the Director General of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1985 to 1993, and his depth of expertise shows through in this book.Īlthough it covers pruning and training techniques for a wide range of trees and bushes, if you are interested in training and pruning fruit trees then it is worth buying for this section alone. There are plenty of books about pruning and training fruit trees - but in our opinion this one of the best, and the one we usually recommend to anyone who wants to train a new fruit tree from first principles.
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