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Grow Olives Where You Think You Can’t: How to Grow an Olive Tree in a Pot
Even if you live somewhere too cold for olive trees to survive the winter, you can enjoy the exotic touch of an olive tree in your garden. This book gives you what you need to know to grow an olive tree in a pot. (And get olives!)
Choose the right location for your olive tree
Prune like an expert
Water and feed so it thrives
Propagate it so you can give your friends olive trees
Conquer winter (you don’t need a greenhouse!)
And, most importantly, find out what your olive tree needs so that you get some olives as a reward for your effort!
Covering everything from lemon varieties, to location and watering, to pruning and shaping, to overwintering, dealing with pests, and more—and including insights from fellow citrus enthusiasts—this book will give you the confidence you need to grow and harvest fresh lemons in cold climates.
This book will help you apply creative “fig thinking” in your garden and harvest fresh figs even if you have a short summer or cold winters. With some fig thinking, you can harvest figs in areas where they don’t normally survive the winter! In this book, I share many of the questions I have been asked about growing figs in temperate climates, along with my responses.
I co-wrote this vegetable gardening book with Calgary horticulturist Donna Balzer. Our goal was an opinionated, fun book. We got it.
Slightly irreverent, this graphic-novel-meets-gardening-book empowers readers to make their own decisions in the vegetable garden because Donna and I talk frankly about issues…and don’t always agree.
Written for kids by a kid, this guide helps kids see the fun side of gardening, whether it’s growing giant vegetables, making a bug vacuum, or making a sound-themed garden.
Emma shares lots of inspiring ideas for young gardeners about how to grow healthy food, raise cool plants, and have fun outdoors.
Copies from the Food Garden Life shop are signed by Emma!
Didn’t think you can grow your own figs in a cold climate? Here’s all you need to know to grow exotic fresh figs, even if you live somewhere with cold winters. Find out about choosing the right location, watering, pruning—and how to conquer winter. You’ll also learn about varieties, dealing with pests, and get tips from cold-climate fig experts.
Apply creative “fig thinking” in your garden and harvest fresh figs with this combination-pack of 2 fig books.
Save $5 off the cover price.
Fig Book Combo includes:
Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t
Growing Figs in Cold Climates: 150 of Your Questions Answered
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Gardening Audiobooks
Looking for Canadian audiobooks? I’m starting to make my gardening books into audiobooks.
Want to Harvest More Figs?
Master the art of cold-climate fig growing as you drive to work or while you’re at the gym.
Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is an award-winning book about growing figs in cold climates, by a Canadian author.
Now available as an audiobook.
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Even if you live somewhere too cold for olive trees to survive the winter, you can enjoy the exotic touch of an olive tree in your garden. This book gives you what you need to know to grow an olive tree in a pot. (And get olives!)
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