fruit culture

Text and illustrations explain the process of gardening using traditional and new organic methods, and includes various methods of food preservation.

A guide to fruit and vegetable gardening in the Northeastern United States with information on site selection and design; improving the soil; planting, care, and harvesting details for over sixty plants; and preservation methods.

It may get cooler when the season changes from summer to fall, but everyone knows that the food gets better and better. Going apple picking is a great fall activity, and it sure is delicious! Whether you use a ladder, climb a tree, or grab them off some low branches, there’s nothing like biting into a fresh apple. With accessible text and exciting color photographs, beginning readers will head to the apple orchards and see what it’s like to go apple picking for themselves in this exciting book.

Describes where apples come from, what an apple orchard is, when apples can be picked, how cider is made, and other interesting facts about apple orchards.

Explains about fruit trees, what they produce, and how they grow.

In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.

Members of the Rabbit family visit an apple orchard, where they have fun picking apples and discovering their many uses. Includes a recipe for applesauce, directions for a craft activity, and sayings about apples.

Briefly describes in simple text the work that goes on at a fruit orchard and some of the equipment used there.

Describes the historical origins, domestication, uses, growing requirements, harvesting, and shipping of bananas, pineapples, berries, grapes, and melons.

Explains how to grow dwarf fruit trees and berry bushes indoors and outdoors, including information on where to buy them, materials needed, and how to plant, prune, and care for them.