About this item
It’s the question most commonly heard in every garden: what’s wrong with my…? And with the bestselling What’s Wrong With My Plant? and What’s Wrong With My Vegetable Garden?, we’ve answered it for flower borders, perennial gardens, and vegetable beds. What’s next? One of the most challenging parts of the garden—the delicious yet disease-prone fruit garden. What’s Wrong With My Fruit Garden? offers a path toward a healthy garden packed with fresh fruit. In addition to learning how to diagnose a plant problem through clear visual keys, you will also learn the most effective organic solutions for every problem. Detailed plant portraits include information on growth; seasonality; temperature, light, and soil requirements; and planting techniques.
About the Author
Author, artist, photographer and lecturer, Dr. David Deardorff holds a PhD in Botany from the University of Washington. He has been on the faculty of the University of Hawaii in Plant Pathology, and Washington State University in Water Resources, where he taught the Master Gardener program. He also co-founded Plants of the Southwest in Santa Fe, NM, one of the first native plant nurseries in the U.S. He has directed major plant research projects, plant tissue culture programs, grown all kinds of plants in his own backyard, and worked at retail garden centers. He has over thirty years of experience as a plantsman.
