The Backyard Berry Book, by Otto

A hands-on guide to growing berries, brambles, and vine fruit in the home garden. If you’re dreaming of harvesting mouth-watering small fruits in your own backyard, read this book! If you’re already trying small fruit production and harvesting a peck of problems, read this book. Stella Otto tells you how to grow the familiar and the more exotic with big results in a little space. Packed with reliable methods and details of berry growing one seldom encounters in books twice this size. Such a thorough guide provided to the all-important first step of preparing a site for berries, that it actually can serve as priority reading in starting any kind of gardening. Well illustrated and indexed.

• Softbound. 284 pages.