Nutshell Guide to Growing Grapes

Everything you need to know in a nutshell

ISBN    9780-9544607-2-3

A6 paperback 40 pages      £3.50

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Learn how to grow grapes in your own garden. Then relax, take it easy ... and enjoy the fruits of your labours!

Topics covered: site, feeding & watering, pollination, pruning, training, making a simple trellis, training vines on a trellis, making a grape arbour, propagation, pests, diseases, buying your plant, harvesting the crop.      

Reviews:

"A highly informative booklet."

Bunny Guinness, 'Sunday Telegraph' February 27th 2005

"If you're thinking of planting a vine this year, the booklet Nutshell Guide to Growing Grapes by Clive Simms gives clear, well illustrated instructions."

 'The Times' March 5th 2005

"The grape is treated with the same clarity and ease that the author has given to the walnut and fig. Pruning and training, topics usually dealt with in daunting detail, are deftly explained. This is another success for Clive Simms and well worth its very modest price."

'Fruit News'. The Magazine of the Friends of Brogdale. Summer 2005

"The beauty of this guide is not only that in 40 small pages he distils the practical experience of many years into readable, comprehensible advice but also that, by the end, the reader will feel emboldened enough to have a go. This is particularly important for grapes, which have a reputation for being difficult. He tackles all the big questions. The guide is enlivened by clear - and sometimes agreeably jokey -  line drawings by Sam Taylor."

Book Choice  'The Daily Telegraph' July 23rd 2005

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