Planting Your First Fruit Tree

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	When you are planting a fruit tree for the very first time, I personally think it can be a little bit intimidating,
0:19.0	and I'm very thankful to say that we have Tom Spellman back on the show today from Dave Wilson
0:23.6	Nurseries. So we talked yesterday Tom about backyard culture overall.
0:27.5	Yes. And the three sort of tenets of successive ripening, growing what you like,
0:32.4	and managing the canopy of the tree and the size of that tree.
0:36.7	But when it comes to actually planting those trees in the ground,
0:41.1	you also kind of break some of the more classical rules of planting trees, right?
0:46.1	At least when you consider it compared to commercial orchards.
0:48.6	Oh yeah, absolutely.
0:49.6	You know, we're not looking at lining out our personal residential property like a commercial
0:55.7	orchard.
0:56.7	I don't want to do that.
0:57.7	I don't recommend that to anybody.
0:59.4	You want to incorporate your landscape theme and your landscape needs into the trees that you're going to plan out into your garden.
1:09.0	So you want to make sure that you're looking for all those other functions, you know, flower color,
1:14.2	fragrance, fall colors, you know, function of the tree itself and how you place the
1:19.9	tree and how you use the tree for something other than just fruit production.
1:24.2	So probably the most important two considerations would be, how's your drainage?
1:30.1	How does your soil drain?
1:32.0	So you want to do some percolation test.
1:33.7	You want to dig some holes around your property,
1:36.0	you want to fill those with water,
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