How to Perfectly Prune Your Fruit Trees Annually

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Why should you prune your fruit trees annually? Because it keeps them healthy and productive! Urban orchardist Susan Poizner has lots of experience on this very subject as an author and educator of fruit tree care. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/48ZEPVD Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3S6vTXD Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3U5FJMg EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3tO5TIM 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	Well, my friends. We are talking urban orchard keeping orchard care. In this
0:19.5	week of episodes we have Susan Poisner on the show who is an urban orchardist in Toronto, Canada and the author of a title I really love here.
0:27.0	Grow fruit trees fast as well as growing urban orchard.
0:30.0	So welcome to the show, Susan.
0:31.0	Thank you.
0:32.0	So when we talk pruning in the garden,
0:33.6	I think in general, people get a little intimidated,
0:36.2	but certainly with fruit trees even more so
0:38.2	because it feels so irreversible some of these pruning mistakes
0:41.7	you might make.
0:43.0	And that's why we have Susan Poisner on the show,
0:45.5	Urban Orchardists in Toronto, Canada,
0:47.1	author of two books, grow fruit trees fast
0:49.7	and growing urban orchards.
0:51.2	And today, Susan, we're talking about pruning your fruit trees annually and why it's so important and why it's so necessary.
0:58.0	So perhaps we could just start off with a quick primer on that process.
1:04.0	Absolutely.
1:05.0	So first of all, if you're a person who doesn't want to spray your trees,
1:10.0	you don't want to use toxic sprays and lots of us don't.
1:14.0	One of the best ways that you can keep your fruit tree healthy and productive
1:19.0	without using sprays is actually by pruning your tree correctly. So I know for me when I
1:25.8	started growing fruit trees I knew there was this thing called fruit tree
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