Soil Prep for Planting Fruit Trees

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Do you amend the hole when planting fruit trees, or not? An age old question answered on today’s show. Connect With Christy Wilhelmi: Christy Wilhelmi is the founder of Gardenerd and author of the upcoming book, Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:16.2	We are joined again by Kristi Wilhelmie.
0:18.6	She is the founder of Garden Nerd and she's the author of the upcoming book, Grow Your Own
0:23.1	Mini Fruit Garden.
0:24.3	When is that coming out Kristi so people can pre-order or order if they want to?
0:27.7	It's a bit of a moving target because the original release date was March 6th and
0:33.4	now we're at April 13th with a COVID delaying shipping and all, so that's the slated release
0:40.8	date is April 13th and you can pre-order now from your favorite bookstore anywhere you
0:45.6	want.
0:46.6	Got it.
0:47.6	Yeah, that happened with me to mine, which is actually out as of the day we're recording
0:51.6	this right now, March 16th, but it was supposed to be February 8th, so it's the whole world
0:56.6	right now, just the shipping and logistics of everything is just so, so slow, but the link
1:00.8	will be in the description if you guys want to pre-order that, but let's talk about
1:03.9	soil prep for planting fruit trees and I'm actually really curious your thoughts here
1:08.4	because as I mentioned in yesterday's episode I planted that citrus hedge and I actually
1:12.6	didn't do almost anything, so what we did is we just planted them relatively high on
1:17.8	the soil, so maybe three inches high, but as far as amendments in the soil literally nothing
1:24.8	at all, with the idea that once we saw some green growth coming out of the citrus we
1:29.7	may do a little bit of top amendment and then cover up with mulch and sort of play it that
1:33.3	way, granted the soil was relatively good if not a little heavy and clay, so long-winded,
1:39.3	but I'm curious as to your general philosophy there.
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