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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

New Year, New Fruit Trees

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Jacques plans to up his fruit tree game in 2024. Kevin and Jacques talk about ways that different types of gardeners can have their own orchards. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/48pfsfY Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3RNm7tC Book Collection Page:  https://growepic.co/4aNnrVJ EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3TRDID7 Learn More: 2024 Gardening Trends To Inspire You This Year 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 our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Jacques) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you want to get into trees this year, specifically ones that bear fruit, I think this

0:15.7

episode will be for you.

0:17.3

It's something I've been obsessed with since I can remember, but only now do I have the space

0:21.7

to actually do it, and I'm starting to see the

0:24.1

gears turn in your head as well not that you don't have an orchard you do you've got some

0:28.3

cool stuff actually have great blueberries yeah and your passion for it your

0:31.7

first too yeah that's right and then you've got your chicken orchard with Yeah, and your passion for it, your first two.

0:32.5

Yeah, that's right.

0:33.4

And then you've got your chicken orchard with,

0:35.1

how many plants are that?

0:36.2

I think, yeah, five trees.

0:37.7

Yeah.

0:38.2

Two figs, a mulberry, a lemon, and a low quop.

0:41.3

How many of those have produced so far? The figs have produced and that's about it.

0:47.3

So you're getting into orchards, yeah. mostly because we just tried the citrus that we planted two years ago basically and it's finally like really coming in.

0:56.5

I'll say like master stroke. First thing you did when you moved in was like I'm putting in trees.

1:01.7

Obviously like that's what you should do first if you started

1:04.2

garden if you want trees because they take time.

1:06.2

So now you're swimming in citrus after only two years like and they're

1:11.3

covered so I didn't realize first of all that they could be

1:14.0

so prolific when they're kept so small in a backyard orchard and you're getting like

1:17.7

hundred plus lines on one tree so that convinced me and the other thing is

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