What is up everyone?

What is up everyone?

Welcome to What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We're talking

fruit trees in your backyard this week with Cameron Nacrami of the busy

gardener. All of his links will be in the podcast description so

yesterday we talked about selecting varieties that complement each other you get a

nice curve of fruit coming ripe throughout the year and that really at least to my

understanding Cameron goes hand in hand with managing those trees so that they don't

overwhelm you throughout the season or just overtake your garden.

So I'm curious how you approach this as a backyard orchard grower.

Yeah, that's a really important component of this backyard orchard culture.

The idea is that you want trees that are manageable and easy to care for,

and the way that you do that is not by having to climb on a ladder, going

up into the scaffolding, having huge branches fall down on you.

And it really starts with you managing and you deciding how big you want that tree to be.

And so for the backyard orchard culture, especially when you're doing a multiple planting,

you are going to need a bit, do a bit more pruning

in order to make that work and not have branches growing

into each other.

And so the idea here is that you're wanting to keep your trees usually, at least how I like to do it, is no higher than I can reach.

I don't want to be climbing on a ladder for fruit.

I want to be able to reach whatever fruit.

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