Preventing Fruit Tree Disease Pests

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In this episode, urban orchardist and fruit tree care expert Susan Poizner dispenses the reasons fruit trees tend to contract diseases and attract pests. She also discusses how to prevent them altogether. A good general rule: monitor your trees and be curious! Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/47IVtbd Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/48UkvVy Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3vHudwk EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/48CcODL 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... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I can't tell you how many times I have gotten a little discouraged perhaps by losing fruit to a disease on my fruit trees or seeing a crazy past citrus leaf miners are one that comes to mind for me and my
0:24.1	orchard, but there's a lot you can do to prevent them and we have Susan Poisner back
0:29.0	on the show who better to teach us an urban orchardist in Toronto, Canada,
0:33.5	author of growing urban orchards and grow fruit trees fast.
0:37.0	We talked yesterday, Susan, about the role of pruning,
0:40.7	but I'm assuming that is not the only thing that we can be doing to prevent these pests and diseases on our fruit trees.
0:48.0	Absolutely. Okay, so when we chatted about pruning, I told you that pruning is one of the key ways you will prevent
0:57.4	diseases in your tree, and I explained why, but there are so many other easy ways to do it. We don't have to sit by and be victims as we wait and watch our trees fall one by one, two different disease problems. I was there I did that. I nobody else has to do it now because I'm going to give
1:18.7	you guys some hints as to how to avoid it. When we first planted our community orchard, I did not know what I was doing.
1:25.6	The main thing that I learned is that every type of fruit has a limited finite amount of
1:33.1	number of diseases that that tree will get.
1:36.3	It's limited.
1:37.3	So if I can know what those diseases are,
1:41.4	then I can prevent them. I can recognize them right away and nip them in the bud. Here's what happens, though, and this is what I did. So the first challenge that I had was pair rust on pair trees, those orange spots that you get on pair trees.
1:59.0	So we had planted three pair trees in our community orchard. the first year there were some orange spots and I walked by and I thought well that must be normal you know it must be normal it'll go away on its own the next year there were more spots. By the third year these young
2:15.7	trees were so bedraggled. They were so unhappy because I just let that problem fester.
2:23.4	Yeah. So I would say the first way that you can protect your fruit trees
2:28.7	from diseases is by being meticulously clean.
2:33.4	Good hygiene.
2:35.3	So here's how that might look.
2:37.8	Yeah.
2:38.8	Yeah. Well, there you go.
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