Fantastic fruit you can grow yourselfFrom ripe berries bursting with juice, to apples, plums or cherries, it’s easy to grow your own fruit, no matter how little room you have.Follow foolproof, step-by-step advice and all the practical know-how you need to fill your fruit bowl with home-grown produce. Choose from more than 50 different crops – from apples to strawberries and walnuts to whitecurrants.Use the quick-reference year planner to work out when to plant, prune and harvest and master the easy-to-follow techniques for all levels of expertise and every type of growing space – from allotments and greenhouses to patios and roof terraces. You don’t need green fingers to grow great fruit.

Alan Buckingham is a freelance writer with more than 20 years of experience in illustrated publishing, both as an editor and as an author, and has worked on countless information books, interactive CD-ROMs, and websites.

In recent years his writing has centred on his two main interests - photography and gardening. Alan is a long-time plot-holder on the prestigious Royal Paddocks Allotments near Hampton Court Palace, southwest London, where he grows far more fruit and vegetables than he and his family could ever hope to eat. His two previous titles for DK, Grow Vegetables and Allotment Month by Month are best-selling gardening books in the UK.

Specialist Consultant, Jo Whittingham is a freelance writer and gardener, living in Edinburgh. She studied horticulture at Reading University and crams a wide range of fruit and vegetables into her small city garden. Awarded Garden Writer's Guild Journalist of the Year in 2004, she was consultant on Dk's Grow Vegetables and Allotment Month by Month and author of RHS Simple Steps to Success: Vegetables in a Small Garden.