"The One Straw Revolution" by Masanobu Fukuoka Our review or Amazon: - "Grow Your Own Fruit" by Caro

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Every year my family takes a vacation for a week and goes camping. When I was little, it was the eight kids, Mom, and Dad. Now it s Gma and Gpa, the eight siblings, the grandkids, gardening and the great-grandkids. This outing gardening is epic, taking center stage in conversations year-round. Forever, we went to a camp at Fulda Flat in Emigrant Gap. Driving up I-80, when we d get high enough to reach the incense cedar trees, gardening my sister Rebecca would start to cry as her sense of smell brought her that calming recognition that we were actually going to have camp again this year. Suffice it to say, we love family camp.
In the high Sierra along the creeks there s a lovely little gardening fruit called the gooseberry. It is delicious, but very thorny. Bears don t care, they just stuff them in their mouths thorns and all. But we care. We sit and peel them carefully to get at the fruit. My niece Stephanie gardening was at church camp at the same place, but in a different week, and she was picking the fruit and eating it when some friends yelled at her, shocked, that she shouldn t eat stuff like that because it might be poisonous! She just laughed at them and picked more. We are so fortunate gardening to know what is edible and what is not. It s a part of our upbringing.
This last week in the grocery store I picked up a very beautiful book called Grow Your Own Fruit by Carol Klein. gardening I ve since learned that Carol is a British gardening gardening expert, television presenter, and newspaper columnist, and that she was born in my Grandma Alice s county of birth Lancashire England. Carol taught at North Devon College before setting up her own plant nursery, Glebe Cottage gardening Plants. One of the reasons I brought her book was its feature on gooseberries. We have many oak trees at Leas of Lychten, gardening and one of the few plants that is a happy companion plant under oak trees is gooseberry.
I was pleasantly gardening surprised at the depth of information. Besides explaining precisely how to select, plant, and care for many types of fruit, she also includes several that aren t found at my grocery store that she says are fabulous: black currants, quinces, and medlars. She shows how to use space carefully, with fan espaliers, trellises, and hanging baskets. And her language is especially beautiful. The book starts, To grow fruit is to enjoy living. We give our garden our noble labors in the willful pursuit of desire gardening We yearn to create our own Garden of Eden. I recommend Ms. Klein s book for its artfulness, clarity, and thorough information.
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