Latest Fruit trees Podcast Episodes

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Best Wood Chips for Fruit Trees with Linda Chalker-Scott

Orchard People - March 27, 2024 01:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn about the best wood mulches for fruit trees with Linda Chalker-Scott, Professor of Horticulture at Washington State University in this episode of the Orchard People radio show and podcast. Linda is the award-winning author of six books including How Plants Work: The Science Behi...

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Fruit Trees in Fabric Pots with Kevin Espiritu

Orchard People - February 28, 2024 17:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn when, why and how to grow fruit trees in fabric pots. Our show guest on the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Kevin Espiritu of EpicGardening.com. Kevin is the author of the book Grow Bag Gardening: The Revolutionary Way to Grow Bountiful Vegetables, Herbs, Fruit and Flower...

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Grafting Compatibility with Kevin Folta

Orchard People - January 30, 2024 20:35 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn about grafting compatibility and what kinds of trees can be grafted together by understanding the science of graft unions! Our guest is Dr Kevin Folta, Professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida. The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan...

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Old Apple Varieties with Daniel Bussey

Orchard People - December 27, 2023 01:06 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn about old apple cultivars with apple historian Daniel Bussey, author of The Illustrated History of Apples in the United States and Canada. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune ...

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Fruit Tree Care Lessons with Greg Peterson

Orchard People - November 28, 2023 21:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Join Greg Peterson from UrbanFarm.org as he shares five key fruit tree lessons that he has learned from starting a new orchard in North Carolina, applying lessons from 30 years of experience growing fruit trees on his urban farm in Phoenix, Arizona. Listen live to enter our contest to w...

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Hugelkultur with Paul Wheaton

Orchard People - October 31, 2023 20:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn how to cultivate thriving fruit trees and gardens even if you don't have the best soil by using the Hugelkultur technique. Tune in to this Tuesday's live radio show and podcast with guest Paul Wheaton from Permies.com. This month's contest prize is Garden Master Course by Helen A...

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EASY GROW Fruit Trees and PRUNING with Harold Thornbro & Susan Poizner

Orchard People - September 26, 2023 18:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
In this radio show and podcast, fruit tree educator Susan Poizner usually interviews experts in fruit tree care. But in this episode, Harold Thornbro of The Modern Homesteading Podcast interviews her! Topics covered include easy-to-grow fruit trees, how to prune fruit trees and improvin...

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Fool Proof Apple Preservation with Melissa K Norris

Orchard People - August 29, 2023 20:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
What do you do with your bumper crop of apples? In this episode, learn how to can apples easily while keeping your loved ones safe from risks like botulism and mold! Our guest is homesteading and canning expert Melissa K. Norris of the Pioneering Today Podcast and Academy. Listeners w...

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Fruit Tree Pruning Techniques with Tom Spellman

Orchard People - July 26, 2023 00:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
In this episode, Susan Poizner talks to Tom Spellman of Dave Wilson Nursery in Hickman California about the book "How to Prune Fruit Trees and Roses". Tom is one of a team of experts who have updated and revised the classic fruit tree pruning book by R Sandford Martin. Listeners who tu...

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Hybrid Persimmons with Darren Bender-Beauregard

Orchard People - June 27, 2023 20:52 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Once you had to choose: Either grow American persimmons that are hardy, but not great for fresh eating -  or grow the sweet and tasty Asian persimmons that thrived in warmer climates. Well, now you can enjoy the best of both by sourcing a hybrid persimmon. So in this episode I will chat...

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Regenerative Fruit Tree Sprays with Nigel Palmer

Orchard People - May 30, 2023 19:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn how to turn fermented plant juice, eggshells and other locally sourced materials into effective fruit tree fertilizers with Nigel Palmer, author of The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments: Using locally sourced materials to make mineral and biological extracts and fer...

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Multi-Fruit Trees with Javier Rivera

Orchard People - April 25, 2023 19:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Javier Rivera of Stone River Nursery in Central Florida talks about the potential of grafting when creating multi-cultivar trees, fruit salad trees, and even trees that grow in places that you wouldn't expect them to - like apple trees in Florida!  The prize for today's show is Colour...

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Protecting Fruit Tree Blossoms from Frost with Kevin Folta

Orchard People - March 28, 2023 20:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
If you want to enjoy a harvest, you need to protect the blossoms on your fruit tree from late season freezing events. Learn how to do that with Dr Kevin Folta, Department Chair, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. The prize for this episod...

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Fig Propagation with Sam Hubert

Orchard People - March 01, 2023 01:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn how to find and propagate wild fig trees with Sam Hubert, a passionate "fig hunter" and nursery manager of One Green World Nursery and Garden Center in Portland Oregon. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website...

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Apple Tree Rootstocks Explained with John Strang

Orchard People - February 01, 2023 16:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
B9? EMLA107? What's the difference between the many different types of rootstocks used for apple trees. And which is the best for you? In this episode, John Strang, Retired Extension Fruit and Vegetable Specialist from the University of Kentucky, will chat with us about apple rootstocks...

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Foodscaping with Matt Lebon

Orchard People - December 27, 2022 19:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
If you love growing fruit trees and other edible plants, you might consider a career as a "foodscaper." Matt Lebon of Customfoodscaping.com talks about how to transform a garden into an edible oasis and about his upcoming summit for professional foodscapers. You can download a free PD...

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Growing Hardy Apple Trees

Orchard People - November 29, 2022 21:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn about some of the best tasting hardy apple trees available to northern growers with Bob Osborne, the owner of Corn Hill Nursery in New Brunswick, Canada and author of Hardy Apples: Growing Apples in Cold Climates. Listen to the show live to enter our contest to win a copy of this ...

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Growing Hardy Kiwi Vines

Orchard People - October 25, 2022 18:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Hardy kiwi vines produce berries that are sweeter than table grapes and they have more vitamin C per ounce than an average orange. And while the fruit is similar to the larger, fuzzy kiwis that grow in New Zealand and California, kiwi berries have edible skin. In this episode our gues...

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Why Pests Can't Attack Healthy Plants

Orchard People - September 27, 2022 21:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
According to Entomologist Thomas M. Dykstra, Ph.D. of Dykstra Laboratories in Gainesville, Florida, insect pests can't attack healthy plants. Learn more and ask your questions in this live radio show. In the show, Thomas mentions that anyone can measure leaf brix with two tools:  A ga...

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Why Pests Can't Attack Healthy Plants with Thomas M. Dykstra

Orchard People - September 27, 2022 21:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
According to Entomologist Thomas M. Dykstra, Ph.D. of Dykstra Laboratories in Gainesville, Florida, insect pests can't attack healthy plants. Learn more and ask your questions in this live radio show. In the show, Thomas mentions that anyone can measure leaf brix with two tools:  A ga...

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Growing Heirloom Peaches

Orchard People - August 30, 2022 21:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
There are some fantastic heirloom peach cultivars that are not available at your local supermarket....but you can grow them at home! Lawton Pearson of Pearson Farm talks about his family's history of growing peaches in Georgia and his favourite cultivars. You can find a video excerpt ...

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How to Grow a Fruiting Wall

Orchard People - July 26, 2022 19:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Commercial growers are increasingly growing sweet cherries and other fruits in an easy to prune, maintain and harvest fruiting wall structure. Matthew Whiting, Extension Specialist from Washington State University, played a key role in developing the UFO cherry fruiting wall system and ...

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Turning Your Backyard into a Food Forest

Orchard People - June 28, 2022 20:52 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn how to transform your backyard into a food forest, integrating existing fruit trees and shrubs into the design. Dani Baker, author of The Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape is our show guest. Dani is the owner of Cross Island Farms i...

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Espalier Fruit Trees for Small Gardens

Orchard People - May 31, 2022 21:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Fruit trees can be productive, but they can also be beautiful! In this episode learn how to create an espalier fruit tree planting where the tree is trained up against a wall or fence.  Our expert guest will be Ron Perry, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Michigan St...

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Do Plant Hardiness Zones Matter?

Orchard People - April 26, 2022 18:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
In the past, you would consult a plant hardiness zone map if you wanted to know whether a fruit tree or any other plant could survive in your climate.  But our climate is quickly changing. Are plant hardiness zone maps still helpful? In this episode, we chat about plant hardiness zone...

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Grow Fruit Trees Fast!

Orchard People - March 29, 2022 19:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
How do you encourage young fruit trees to grow faster and produce an earlier harvest?  Susan Poizner of OrchardPeople.com chats with John Cline Ph.D, Professor in the Department of Plant Agriculture, at the University of Guelph in Ontario. John’s focus is on tree fruit physiology and hi...

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Grafting Fruit Trees

Orchard People - February 23, 2022 01:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Steph Roth from Silver Creek Nursery in Ontario talks about how she grafts fruit trees. We will cover collecting fruiting wood, rootstock choices, bench grafting and more. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website w...

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Making Perry Cider

Orchard People - January 25, 2022 20:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Cider apples are a hot commodity these days. But what about perry pears? In this episode,  Barry Masterson, of Kertel Reiter Cider talks about  perry and tells us how to make it and what pear varieties to use.  Barry, who is from Ireland, lives with his German born wife, Ines, in the vi...

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Irrigation Systems for Fruit Trees

Orchard People - December 28, 2021 20:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
There is a right way and a wrong way to water your fruit trees and other plants. And how you irrigate will affect the health of your plants and the quality of your harvest. Learn the science behind irrigation with sustainable food gardening expert and author Robert Kourik. The prize f...

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Heirloom Fruit Recipes for The Holiday

Orchard People - November 30, 2021 20:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn to use your home grown heirloom fruits in recipes from centuries past. Show guests include orchardist Darren Turpin of Orchardnotes.com, historic cook Paul Couchman of Regencycook.co.uk and culinary historian Brigitte Webster of Tudorexperience.com. The host of The Urban Forestr...

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