Growing Berries - How To Grow And Preserve Berries: Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Blueberries, Gooseberries, Redcurrants, Blackcurrants & Whitecurrants. (Food Preservation) Paperback – May 14, 2014

Excellent must have book for any PERSON WHO WANTS TO GROW BERRIES, BE YOU:City dweller with patio/deck,Homesteader,Small wannabe farmer!Many money saving tips that you need to do anyway to protect your garden, fertilize it, etc PLUSHOW TO INVEST IN 1-2 PLANTS AND TURN THEM IT A WHOLE GARDEN! 1 blueberry plant becomes 3-5 plants-- every year! You can this method to a few plants to turn them into rows and rows of CROPS!Great for organic, natural methods for person who wants to avoid Chemicals or JUST WANTS TO SAVE MONEY!!!Companion growing methods are both space-savers and money-savers! Why pay for added nitrogen products when you can just plant beans and get 2nd crop!Bug repellants range from growing garlic as companion plant-- who wouldn't want free garlic! AND how to use garlic and lemon-infused water sprays-- AGAIN, cheap!Includes detailed instructions for keeping plants safe from bugs, diseases, birds-- most over-lap with the things you'lll already being doing for your companion planting or adding natural, cheap organic bugspray/fungus control-- meaning same work gets mutliple jobs done!Includes building designs (full instructiins & pictures) for making your own cheap containers, vertical frames, frames for bird netting to protect your plants. No more losing half your crop or more to pests!Last, includes recipes for what to do with your left over yield.must have read. if you buy one garden book, this is the one (and I have the useless, stupid bookshelf of books to prove it-- maybe they can work as mulch--LOL)

Love this, Helped a lot.

This book answered each and every one of my questions about growing berries of all kinds. In the past, I tried and failed, especially with my favorites: strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. No more fails! -- now I know how, and can enjoy the home-grown goodness the year around. No more purchasing days-old berries at the grocery store: pick 'em, freeze 'em -- or turn them into preserves. Thank you, Mr. Paris!

This book is not well organized, however a found some useful tips in it. What I found most useful is the bad companion for the berries I am growing, I realize that I have made some mistakes in the past.This book covers plant care, predators. as well as good and bad companion plants for fruit plants. It also covers how best to preserve plants after they are harvested. The book covers strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries, red currants, black currants and white currants. The author is located in UK, but includes planting Zone maps for both UK and USA. The book ends with jam recipes.Ali Julia review

I really liked the fact that all 3 currant plants were included as well as gooseberries. The chutney recipes are a bonus as I wouldn't have thought of using currents to make these even tho I was grown-up in a family where even the men helped with the canning

I found a great deal of information to start using and growing several kinds of berries. Recipes are easy to follow.

Found some good information about the upkeep of the berries I already have. I also found new information on planting new ones this year.

Nowhere in the description of this book does it say the author is located in the U.K., thus his advice is useless here in my Zone 6B in Virginia. Not that there was much 'advice' given; mostly just opinions.