What is up everyone?

What is up everyone?

Welcome to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We're talking

fruit trees. We're talking orchards this week with Cameron Nachrami of

the busy gardener. Cameron you've got 80 plus varieties in your orchard.

That's a lot.

I'm sitting at one, actually technically I think three,

no actually four because there's random fruit trees that were just

sort of sprinkled around my property but one or all of those may be coming out

to make way for like the ones that I actually want and so I'm curious you've got three sort of

considerations that someone needs to to think about when they're planning their

orchard and so I'm curious what the first one is. Yeah the first one as you're planning your orchard you want to keep in mind is what to plant.

Now you might be in a climate where you have very limited options, but here in Southern California we can kind of plant almost anything we want.

And so in looking at what to plant, you want to think of a fruit that you actually like to eat,

that you want to eat and then if you had to eat a hundred of them you probably

be okay with it. And so some of that might be paying closer attention when

you're at the store and seeing as you've purchased in the past what what there is that you'd like to

a certain type of fruit. So that's kind of the first consideration of what to plant. You also

ideally want a tree that is self fruitful.

And what self fruitful means is just that it's able to produce fruit

if it was planted all by itself.

Now, not every tree is like that.

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