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In this episode of The Beginner’s Garden Podcast, we’re diving into the world of homegrown fruit! 🍎🍑🍋 You told us you wanted to learn more, so today marks the beginning of many future episodes on growing different kinds of fruit. To kick things off, I’m joined by Chad Cargill, an experienced fruit grower, to help us navigate the basics. 🌱

We discuss how to determine whether certain fruits—like lemons 🍋, blueberries 🫐, or peaches 🍑—can thrive in your garden, how to choose the best varieties 🌳, and what to know about tree sizes 📏, rootstocks, and pollination needs 🐝. Chad also shares organic strategies 🌿 for managing fruit tree diseases, the basics of planting and maintenance 🌱💧, and his top recommendations for getting started.

If you’ve ever wanted to grow your own fruit but weren’t sure where to begin, this episode is packed with practical insights to help you take the first step! ✅ Plus, we wrap up with a conversation about how growing and sharing food can bring people together. 🏡❤️ Don't miss it! 🎧

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Beginners Garmin podcast. One thing that you guys had told me about last year when we
0:05.8	polled you guys was that you wanted to learn more about growing fruit. And hopefully today is just
0:11.9	the start of many episodes where we're going to be diving into growing fruit at home. And we're
0:17.3	going to go into several different types of fruit individually. But today, I have my guest
0:22.7	here at Chad Cargill, and he is going to help us get started with growing fruit because many of you guys,
0:28.3	like me years ago, had no idea how to even get started. We will be right back with my conversation
0:35.0	with Chad, but first, this episode is brought to you
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1:15.1	beginner 20 to get 20% off. Chad, thank you so much for joining me today here in Russellville.
1:21.2	Thanks. When we come out. I'm excited to be your Redless and listen to your podcast for a long time and
1:24.6	so honored to get to be in me. Well, thank you. I am amazed at all the
1:28.5	fruit that you're growing and I'm, I'm a sponge. I'm wanting to learn from you as well. But can you
1:34.1	tell us who you are and also what you do? Sure. So I do several of the things. I grew up in El Coulouse City,
1:42.0	got an engineering degree, worked as an engineer for five years for a company called Lucent Technologies.
1:47.6	I was working with high school students on their ACT test during that time.
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