Hi, everybody.

It's Joe Lample, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner show.

One topic that we get request on to cover more often is with fruit trees.

Many of us are taking our gardening and fruit growing to the next level, and we're adding

fruit crops to our gardens and backyard orchards.

So it was very good time, I mean, that I was contacted by my friend Susan Poisoner recently.

She has a new book out.

It's titled Grow Fruit Trees Fast, a Beginner's Guide to a Healthy Harvest in Record Time.

The book is a very good primer if you're new to fruit growing or you want to get a good

review of the basics.

This book covers it, and the best part is it was written so that you could read it in just

about an hour, but don't let that fool you in how much information is included between

the pages.

Susan is an ISA Certified Arborist, which is an ideal skill set to have her growing

and maintaining healthy trees.

She doesn't come from a gardening or horticulture background, though, which actually makes her

story and approach to writing this book even more appropriate, especially for newer growers.

In fact, what I love most about Susan's journey to excel is someone so knowledgeable about

growing fruit trees and sharing her knowledge so freely with others is that she learned

much of it through her mistakes over the years.

And you know how I am about mistakes, and I call them learning opportunities.

But this is an excellent example of turning those lemons into lemonade, and yes, another

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