The Orchard Book by Wade Muggleton

Wade Muggleton has distilled 20 years of orchard know-how into this practical handbook to help you plan, plant, and manage your orchard, whatever your garden size or budget.

With his expert guidance you can have an orchard on any plot—garden, yard, allotment or smallholding—and both maximise your harvest and minimise your outlay. The book covers:

• Rootstocks and fruit varieties
• Planting plans
• Maintenance strategies
• Pruning
• Propagation
• Eco-friendly pest and disease management
• Harvesting
• Storing
• Preserving the harvest