Holistic Sprays for Fruit Trees

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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What are holistic sprays, and how should fruit tree gardeners use them? Susan Poizner, urban orchardist covers this interesting topic and discusses holistic spray composition, and how they actually work for fruit trees. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3SmPtjW Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4bgE38X Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3U1tS1G EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/48DcPY1 Learn More: How to Prune Overgrown Fruit Trees in 7 Easy Steps Connect With Susan Poizner: Susan Poizner is an urban orchardist in Toronto, Canada and the author of Grow Fruit Trees Fast and Growing Urban Orchards. Susan trains new growers worldwide through her award-winning fruit tree care training program at Orchardpeople.com where you can find extensive articles, videos, podcasts and online courses on fruit tree care. Susan is also the host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast and an ISA Certified Arborist. YouTube Online Courses Podcasts Susan’s Book Grow Fruit Trees Fast 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	When you think about spraying in the garden, it gets a bad rap and honestly sometimes for great reason, but that does not mean it is a feat activity for your entire gardening career.
0:25.8	So we have Susan Poisner back in the show, Urban Orchardists in Toronto, Canada,
0:29.6	author of Grow Fruit Trees Fast and Growing Urban Orchards, and you mentioned this. of growing urban orchard
0:33.1	orchards.
0:34.1	And you mentioned this yesterday, Susan, holistic sprays.
0:37.7	I'm actually unfamiliar with the term holistic sprays.
0:42.0	So maybe we start there. What do we actually mean by that?
0:44.9	Oh wow holistic sprays are amazing now first of all in terms of sprays in general
0:51.7	there are some sprays that you may or may not want to use on your tree that they can be organically accepted.
0:58.0	There's certain dormant sprays that can be very helpful.
1:01.0	But what they do, those traditional sprays are usually really, you know, they're trying to protect, directly protect your tree from pests, like for instance, dormant oil spray that you use in the winter is something that suffocates
1:16.8	the overwintering insects that are hiding inside the cracks and crevices of your fruit tree.
1:24.0	So sometimes, and you know, I use dormant oil sprays every year on the trees.
1:29.5	That's the only spray I really do.
1:31.3	But there's a reason for it.
1:33.0	Holistic sprays are different.
1:35.0	The idea around a holistic spray,
1:38.0	it's a spray that you can make at home
1:41.0	out of like the simplest one would be just rain water if possible or regular water if you don't have
1:47.2	rain water and a little bit of molasses or you can put in yogurt or you can put in there's a whole I've got a whole article on my website
1:56.6	All about the different combinations that you can put together for your holistic spray or your fruit tree spray.
2:03.8	So here the idea is different.
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