Small, (almost) maintenance-free fruit trees

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Garden & Nature

Denis Pépin

Terre Vivante

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16,5 x 24,5 cm
208 pages CMYK

 

Easy to prune, productive, hardy

Beside the highly vigorous trees (often old varieties) that are usually offered in garden centres but unsuited to small gardens and older gardeners, and the costly trellised forms that require a great deal of knowledge to master, there are now many new varieties of small, dwarf or columnar forms, suitable for small gardens or even for growing in pots, with low and easy maintenance. For older varieties, dwarfing rootstocks are available to reduce vigour and enable them to be grown in small gardens. For all fruit species, there are also old and new varieties that are much less susceptible to disease and the main pests, thus considerably reducing the need for treatments.

Denis Pépin

Ecologist and agronomist.

Agence Schweiger