What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. We're talking fruit trees. We're talking backyard

orchards this week on the show with Cameron Akrami, the man behind the busy gardener on YouTube, Instagram, and his own website,

which you can check out in the description.

So Cameron, we've talked a lot about kind of the basic theory, so to speak, of backyard orchard design and and care

Now let's say I'm I'm in I'm gonna do it. I've got my little backyard going and I don't have any fruit trees and I'm getting started

What are some of those things that I can do that are really, really wrong

and will set my orchard up for failure?

Well, the first thing you want to make sure that you're doing is getting a tree that is going to work in your climate.

Trees don't grow everywhere and certain types of trees don't grow well in other areas and so you want to make

sure that first of all you're dealing in a very wide way and choosing let's say you wouldn't

plant a citrus tree if you live in Seattle, Washington.

And in the same way you want to make sure you're planting something if you're in the heat of

Southern California like we are that has enough what they call chill hours to actually be able to provide some

fruit on that tree. And so being aware of the types of trees that can grow in

your climate and they can also produce in your climate are really important just Just because it's at your nursery center

does not mean it's going to do well in your yard. So being aware of that is one

major aspect of that. Yeah, I think that's the thing that probably frustrates a lot of new gardeners, whether you're

growing fruit trees or otherwise, is what is local, as in the store that's near you?

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