I was just browsing through my copy of Glowinski's book last night, so I'll second Don's recommendation of it. But for the American reader it has one important shortcoming, namely that Australia lacks some of the major insect pests and diseases you will face in TN. Perhaps the most important are the insect plum curculio and the bacterial disease fireblight. For example, Glowinski says the Hosui Asian pear is highly disease resistant; it may well resist the diseases found in Australia, but it is reputed to be very susceptible to fireblight here. Another shortcoming is in regard to the varieties: due to Australia's extremely tough regulations on importing plant or animal life, a large numbe of varieties we can readily get in the US are not available to Australians. For example, Glowinski lists only one readily available gooseberry cultivar, whereas over here there are dozens. But these shortcomings can be overcome by use of the web; I particularly like the fruit growing guides available on line from Penn State and Cornell. What is particularly good about Glowinski's book (besides its great readability) is that it is oriented to the backyard grower and manages to hit just the right balance between technical details more appropriate for a commercial grower and dummed down information of little real value to the home grower.

Kathy, I'm doing the same sort of thing here in suburban Maryland near Washington DC. I've been at it for about four years. Your biggest problem will be the apples and all the stone fruit, with sour cherries being the least troublesome of these. You will have to fight two major insect pests: plum curculio and oriental fruit moth. There are plenty of posts on these pests on garden web -- see especially Jellyman's and Scott Smith's posts, as they live in northern Virginia and Maryland and have a lot of experience. You may also have disease problems to deal with -- rot on the stone fruit, perhaps scab, fire blight, or cedar apple rust on the apples. Picking disease resistant varieties can help here; unfortunately there are no varieties resistant to insect pests. Your other fruits should be far less troublesome. Your main concern will be keeping the animals -- especially birds and squirrels -- off them. Netting the fruit is the solution unless the plants are very large. You will also need to make sure the soil the blueberries grow in is kept sufficiently acidic. And do not fertilize them with regular 10-10-10 or other standard fertilizers; if you use synthetic fertilizers, ammonium sulphate is good or you could use fertilizer formulated for acid loving plants like Azaleas. The Asian fruit trees -- jujube, persimmon-- should be pretty trouble free. Some other things you might consider growing: gooseberries, mulberries, elderberries (not for fresh eating but make good wine and a very good cordial that protects against colds).

I agree on Wineberries. I had some grow (on their own) on the north side of my house. Even with very little sun, they fruited profusely this year. But, I did notice the canes which draped into by front porch area (under the overhang, with almost zero direct sun) weren't as sweet (by quite a margin) as the ones with an hour or two of direct sun each day.

Deanna, I thought about straining out the juice, but if I had made the jam from the unfrozen fruit, it would have had the juice and I'm concerned that not using it would take away too much of the fruit's flavor. It doesn't take that much more boiling time to reduce the juice. It's the same juice that would be drawn out of the fruit by the sugar when you macerate it. I have thought about perhaps straining the juice and reducing it a bit then adding it back into the solids when making something like a pie or crisp to keep the crust from getting soaked from the already liberated juice and to keep the solid pieces from getting overcooked.