3 Ways to Kill Your Fruit Trees
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
What...who would want to KILL their fruit tree?! In today’s show, we talk about the things first time fruit growers often do that lead them to destroy their precious trees, in an effort to help you avoid these critical mistakes.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here? We're back again with Farmer |
| 0:05.4 | Greg from the Urban Farm and the Urban Farm Podcast. So today what we're talking |
| 0:09.4 | about is fruit trees and specifically ways that you can kill them, which is not something |
| 0:14.8 | that I think you would have expected to hear on the Epic Gardening podcast. |
| 0:17.8 | However, in learning how to kill them, you will learn how to care for them. |
| 0:21.3 | So that's what we're talking about today. |
| 0:23.8 | I will say that Greg also has about 70, I think Greg. |
| 0:27.1 | Is that right? |
| 0:28.3 | Yeah, 70 fruit trees on my third acre here in Phoenix. |
| 0:31.4 | Yep, 70 fruit trees and he actually presented at the Superfood Summit with Stacy Murphy and |
| 0:36.2 | myself about this and has a course on it. |
| 0:38.6 | So if you're interested in learning more, you can always check those out. |
| 0:41.2 | But Greg, I figured why not start out with the |
| 0:44.3 | number one way to kill your fruit tree all right so first of all people say you |
| 0:49.5 | want to teach me how to kill my fruit trees and where this came from was I've been running a |
| 0:55.8 | fruit tree education program here in Phoenix for 20 years now and you know people |
| 1:01.4 | will buy fruit trees so they get their education for free and then they can buy |
| 1:04.8 | fruit trees from me and they'll buy fruit trees from me and then they'll send me pictures of their dead trees. |
| 1:10.0 | And so I've seen it over and over and over again and so that's where this concept came from. |
| 1:18.8 | It's like all right you don't want to do this and number one is planting it in a really hot microclimate. You know, |
| 1:28.0 | block walls, really no matter where you're at, if you're planting a tree right next to a block wall, it's probably |
| 1:35.6 | going to do it in. |
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