Backyard Orcharding with Tom Spellman

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Tom Spellman has tons of experience in backyard orcharding. His expertise even helped Kevin get started on his orchard. Starting a backyard fruit tree orchard is a daunting task to those who have never gardened fruit trees, but it’s not as hard as you think. Tom dispenses basic fruit tree orchard tips here. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4bK5RCN Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3SMIxLU Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3SOKR5b EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/49MT0hd Learn More: 21 Fast Producing Fruit Trees, Shrubs & Vines Connect With Tom Spellman: Tom Spellman has 25+ years of experience in the nursery industry, specializing in fruit trees. He's known for the popularization of Backyard Orchard Culture, a method of planting fruit trees at home that maximizes production for the home grower, successive ripening, and unique pruning and plant care strategies that give a home gardener a ton of delicious, sweet fruit. Instagram YouTube Web Site Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden and Botanical Interest ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've been curious about fruit trees, but a little bit scared to get started.
0:17.1	You've probably heard a name that I've said on this podcast many times, and that name is
0:20.8	Tom Spellman, who Tom is on the podcast today welcome to the show but I think
0:28.0	without knowing it you've been a mentor a digital mentor let's call it in my own exploration into background orchard
0:35.7	culture which we're going to talk about this week so thanks for coming on.
0:38.4	Kevin I couldn't be happier to be here you know you're you what you've done here in the last three to four years is
0:45.1	fantastic. I really like your property and the efforts that you put into it.
0:49.2	It's a really, really cool project and I'm complimented in you know you saying that you learn some of that for me.
0:58.0	I appreciate that.
1:00.0	No, absolutely. I mean when I first moved into this place it was kind of googling around to how to get started with an orchard and it was your original videos from Dave Wilson nursery talking about that whole philosophy of backyard orchard culture, but I'm kind of curious for you, how did this all begin?
1:15.0	Well, I've been in this pretty much all of my adult life and even as a teenager.
1:21.0	I started in the early 1970s, you know, working for a small in-town
1:27.8	retail nursery. I had an opportunity to go to work later on with Armstrong nurseries in Ontario, California at the time they had a huge wholesale fruit tree and rose program that they were growing and selling retail and other wholesalers.
1:45.0	So I got to work with some early hybridizers and you know horticulturalist in
1:51.4	production on growing that type of material.
1:55.0	In 1981 I had an opportunity to go to work with Laverne nursery.
2:00.4	They're Southern California staple. They've been growing citrus avocados tropical fruits subtropical fruits for many many years
2:08.4	So I worked for them from 81 to 2001 and then this opportunity came along with Dave Wilson
2:16.4	Nursery to become their southwestern sales manager and as much as I love production
2:21.8	as much as I love hybridizing, I've always found that sales was where I really wanted to end up.
2:30.0	So this has been a great position, it's been a dream job. I'm still aggressively working with
2:36.8	them today and selling fruit trees, shade trees, nut trees, all over the southwestern United States.
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