Container Tree Mistakes to Avoid

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Containers are an unnatural way to grow trees (or any plant). Cameron shares how to set up your container trees for success. Connect with Cameron Akrami: Cameron Akrami is the man behind The Busy Gardener and is known for fruit trees and backyard orchard culture. Subscribe to The Busy Gardener Follow on Instagram Check out Cameron’s website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's all stop killing our container fruit trees.
0:17.6	That sounds pretty good to me.
0:18.6	I will admit to you, Cam.
0:19.8	I've killed, oh man, under 10 but over 5 container trees and three of those were blueberries.
0:27.0	It was a mix of potting soil compost and micro-bark at 50% 40% and 10% respectively.
0:34.7	What ended up happening is there were some earthworms introduced and I think they just destroyed
0:39.3	the micro-bark.
0:40.3	They just completely decimated it.
0:42.6	It broke down very quickly and I'm talking to a container and it dropped 6 inches in
0:48.7	less than a season.
0:51.0	The tree did not or the bush didn't really like that very much and I had a little dilemma
0:56.2	on my hand so I've certainly made a lot of mistakes not just that one in container trees
1:00.0	I'm curious which ones you've made.
1:03.0	Oh man, I'm just ashamed to even talk about all the failures but that's where you learn
1:08.3	and you learn to avoid those mistakes.
1:10.3	This is how you learn, you learn, hey I killed this tree and what can I do to avoid that
1:15.3	happening in the future.
1:16.3	So hopefully whoever is listening right now can avoid that at the outset.
1:19.8	Learn from our pain, let our tears fuel your success.
1:24.9	Yeah, containers in general when it comes to for fruit trees or any kind of trees are
1:30.4	going to be a lot more sensitive than planting straight in the ground.
1:35.3	Trees are made to go in the ground and they don't naturally grow terrific in a container
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