Fruit Trees Made Easy with Susan Poizner | The Beet

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Episode Description: On this episode of the Beet Podcast, Jacques digs into all things fruit trees with orchard pro and influencer Susan Poizner. From childhood memories to juicy tips on growing your own, they cover it all. Tune in to learn how to grow fruit trees that actually bear fruit – sweet, delicious, and plentiful! Connect with Susan Poizner: Susan Poizner is a leading voice in fruit tree care, known for her award-winning educational resources. Her journey began in 2009 with the co-founding of Toronto’s Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard. A journalist and BBC-trained media pro, Susan used her skills to dive deep into organic fruit tree care, developing a practical approach she now shares through her website. Find more from Susan Poizner at her website: https://learn.orchardpeople.com/about-susan Find more from Susan Poizner on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orchardpeople/ Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some people say, well, I don't want the fruit tree in the middle of my garden because, you know, I want to plant other things.
0:04.7	So I will put it along the fence where my neighbors and I are. Here's the problem. When you water your fruit tree, you need to water all the roots. So if you water half of the roots, those roots will thrive. But the roots on the other side will not thrive. They will
0:23.0	sort of diminish. They might die because if you're not watering your neighbor's side, you need to
0:27.9	have some control over the whole tree. This is kind of a commitment. This is a lifetime thing.
0:37.4	Welcome back to the Beat podcast.
0:39.6	Today we are going to be talking all about fruit trees.
0:42.2	And we have a special guest on today, Susan Poisoner.
0:45.0	And you've been on before.
0:46.4	You've talked to Kevin about caring for fruit trees, pruning them.
0:49.9	And today I kind of want to have a conversation about how to take a fruit tree from start
0:54.3	to sort of finish, like how to basically start your own little food orchard.
0:58.5	So thank you for coming on.
1:00.2	And why don't you tell us a little bit about where you are, where you're growing, and maybe
1:03.7	your favorite food tree, actually.
1:05.6	Oh, wow.
1:06.3	That's a tough question.
1:09.2	Okay.
1:09.6	So where I'm located is I'm in Canada.
1:11.6	I'm in Toronto, Ontario, and we got a nice cold climate here, but decent length growing
1:18.6	season.
1:19.6	I grow my fruit trees in a public park.
1:22.6	So I started a community orchard project.
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