Soil For Fruit Trees

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Do you want to develop soil for your upcoming fruit tree planting? Susan Poizner is an urban orchardist and fruit tree care educator who has plenty of experience with this very subject. The secret to this is to mulch properly in the spring. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4b0mHgd Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3SnQh7Z Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3SsyT2g EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3Hr7pUo 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	When I bought my house three-ish years ago, I knew I wanted an orchard, but I was scared of the
0:19.9	soil that I had in the ground. I didn't really, to be honest, even do a soil test.
0:24.1	Kind of a clown move, but whatever, that's the way that I played it. Turns out I've got decent
0:28.7	soil. I got a little bit lucky. But even then, when I was planning out the
0:32.0	orchard, I was very curious, okay, well, what's the best soil for citrus? What's the best soil for citrus? What's the best soil for wild plants? And clearly, I don't have the best soil probably for all of them. So we have Susan Poisner back on the show urban
0:43.7	orchardist in Toronto Canada author of grow fruit trees fast and growing urban orchards.
0:49.7	Was that a fear maybe you had at the beginning Susan. Oh my gosh Kevin you're assuming I knew anything when I started
0:58.0	off. Yeah, well hey. Yeah, and make no assumptions.
1:02.5	So actually, when we did plant our orchard in the public park,
1:05.9	they did do some soil testing.
1:07.8	So the park supervisor, I was working with a wonderful man,
1:11.5	he said, we have to test the soil and they were doing soil
1:15.2	toxin testing and so they wanted to make sure that these trees would not produce
1:20.0	fruit that soil with heavy metals. I'm not sure how well the tree would do, but they have done studies and the
1:36.1	studies say that somehow the tree cleans it up and the fruit is fine. If you're growing your
1:41.2	fruit in an area where there's a lot of air pollution, you might want to wash that fruit, but anyways, ultimately, you do however want to grow your fruit trees in healthy soil.
1:53.4	So there's the one test is the soil toxin test,
1:56.8	and another test is soil fertility test
1:59.0	because you're putting your tree in the soil.
2:02.2	If there's not enough nutrients in the soil for the tree it cannot just pick up and
2:06.2	go somewhere else and walk with this little root system somewhere else and plant itself elsewhere.
2:11.1	It's stuck there. So it is a great idea, if possible, to test your soil, to just make sure everything's in balance. When you do a soil test, you find a local lab. they'll tell you how to do it, but what's very important
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