Currants, Gooseberries, and Jostaberries: A Guide for Growers, Marketers, and Researchers in North America

by Danny Barney, Kim Hummer

Overview

This book provides authoritative information on the biology and history of growing currants, gooseberries, and jostaberries (gooseberry/currant hybrids) as commercial crops in the United States. The authors present in detail the necessary components of successful culture, including site and soil selection, site design, propagation, cultivar selection, and pest and disease management. With tables, figures, and forms to assist you in selecting, purchasing, harvesting, and marketing Ribes cultivars, this book will help you set up and maintain a currant or gooseberry farm and effectively competing in the world market.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000630046
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	05/31/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	266
File size:	944 KB

About the Author

Danny L. Barney, Kim E. Hummer

Table of Contents

Foreword, Preface, Chapter 1. History of Currant, Gooseberry, and Jostaberry Cultivation, Chapter 2. Genetics, Growth, Development, and Fruit Composition, Chapter 3. Propagation, Chapter 4. Selecting a Planting Site, Chapter 5. Designing a Currant, Gooseberry, or Jostaberry Farm, Chapter 6. Preparing a Site for Planting, Chapter 7. Ribes Cultivars, Chapter 8. Planting and Establishing Ribes, Chapter 9. Crop Management, Chapter 10. Pests and Diseases of Ribes, Chapter 11. Harvesting, Storing, and Marketing Ribes Crops, Chapter 12. Breeding Currants, Gooseberries, and Jostaberries, Appendix A. Site Selection Checklist, Appendix B. Enterprise Budget, References, Index

What People are Saying About This

E. F. Mashburn

E. F. Mashburn, Past President and current Board of Directors member, The International Ribes Association
AN EXCELLENT, MODERN GUIDE. . . . There is no other publication that I know of that addresses the many aspects of production of this fruit. This will be VALUABLE FOR ALL PRESENT AND FUTURE GROWERS AND MARKETERS. Most of the information on Ribes production is more than fifty years old, and none covers the subject as well as this book. The authors are well-known, very careful researchers, and are probably the most knowledgeable sources of information about Ribes in this country.

Steven McKay

Steven McKay, MS, Extension Educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension
AS AN EXTENSION EDUCATOR, I am constantly asked for reference materials on Ribes and am happy to have one source, one guide that I can recommend rather than an incomplete packet of articles and pamphlets. THIS GUIDE IS COMPLETE AND IS VALUABLE FOR SMALL-SCALE TO LARGE-SCALE GROWERS AS WELL AS EDUCATORS AND RESEARCHERS. Literally all relevant subjects have been covered in the guide, and I am sure that it will find its way to all pomologists' reference shelves alongside the NRAES guides for other berry crops.