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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

6 Compact Fruit Trees For Small Spaces

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

If you're growing in a small space, you may think fruit trees are out of reach for you - nothing could be further from the truth! Here are 6 varieties you should consider to get fruit out of a small growing space.

Keep Growing,

Kevin

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show today. We're going to talk about a question from Tony so his question is this for an urban garden

0:07.7

What should I include if I want a small orchard which fruit trees and which berries etc for a compact space. Is there a best practice on what to grow

0:17.5

where? And that's a great question because as we all know most of us don't have a lot of space and if you do you are

0:24.8

certainly fortunate and this will still apply to you if you want to maximize your

0:29.5

fruit production in maybe a smaller section of your property.

0:32.6

But for those of you who have not a whole lot of space to grow in,

0:37.4

and that would be me as well.

0:38.8

I don't have a lot of space myself.

0:41.2

This is a good question to ask.

0:44.4

So let's go ahead and answer it, but of course,

0:46.2

let's talk about Garden Maker Natural's the sponsor for the podcast.

0:50.1

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0:55.3

which means you know exactly what goes into them down to the percentage if you desire to make a custom

1:00.4

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1:05.4

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1:09.1

go check them out at gardenmaker.com. Okay, let's get into this. We're gonna talk about eight trees

1:14.3

that you can grow in extremely small space.

1:16.7

So the first is going to be any kind of apple tree.

1:21.9

So what you can do is you can grow it instead of as a tree you can grow it as a

1:26.3

bush on a dwarfing root stock or as an espalier, a cordon, a w w you, there's many different ways that you can train in apple tree and it's going to depend on the variety.

1:38.8

So I would try Gala, I would try Fuji, I would try Honey try Honey Crisp all of those will pollinate each other

1:44.4

there's a lot of different things that you can do with apples in a small space so long

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