Book Review: Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden

I have grown strawberries in pots for as long as I can remember.  They are so easy to grow and the taste of a home grown strawberry just can’t be beat.  This year, I decided to expand my potted fruit collection to include other berries and citrus so I was beyond thrilled to be gifted an advance copy of Christy Wilhelmi’s new book Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden.  The timing truly could not have been more perfect! 

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Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden is a fantastic resource that I know I will be reaching for again and again on my own fruit growing journey.  I found this book to be incredibly comprehensive.  It starts with the fundamental question of where to site your mini fruit garden and goes over spacing requirements and how to create your design. It is so important to have these initial steps completed to ensure that the garden is successful and to prevent having to move things (of course, if you are growing your plants in containers you can move them wherever and whenever you want!)

Some other key elements included in Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden include choosing rootstock, choosing the proper cultivars for your climate (so important!), and the reasoning and importance behind grafting fruit trees.  There is even a section on do-it-yourself grafting for the more adventurous gardeners out there.  I really loved the section all about berries, especially the tip on how to acidify the soil for blueberries that I can’t wait to try (you will have to read the book to find out what it is!).

Lastly, Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden includes plenty of information on those all-important care components of gardening: fertilizing, pruning, and pests.  Like I said, this book has EVERYTHING!  Really the only thing missing is a bunch of recipes to utilize the abundance of fruit we will be harvesting if we follow the book’s guidelines.  But I’m sure we can figure out that on our own. 

About the Author

Christy Wilhelmi empowers people to grow their own food, to be more self-reliant, and to reduce pollution and waste, one garden at a time. Christy is founder of Gardenerd, the ultimate resource for garden nerds, where she publishes her popular blog and podcast.  She also specializes in small-space, organic edible garden design and consulting.  She holds regular organic gardening classes in California and has co-taught organic gardening at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.  Christy was a board member of Ocean View Farms Organic Community Garden in Mar Vista, California, for over 20 years, and gardens almost entirely with heirloom vegetables.

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Thank you so much for stopping by! Let me know in the comments if you are growing any fruit this year and if you think this book would be of interest to you. This book was gifted to me, but I have provided my own honest review! For more information on edible gardening, check out my articles on mint and carrots! And as always, I would love your company on Instagram!

Happy Gardening,

Heather