Successive Fruit Ripening Strategies

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Instead of having a flush of fruit once per year, plant varieties that ripen successively. Cameron from The Busy Gardener shows you how. Connect With Cameron Akrami: Cameron Akrami is the man behind The Busy Gardener and is known for fruit trees and backyard orchard culture. Subscribe to The Busy Gardener Follow on Instagram Check out Cameron’s website 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	What's going on everyone?
0:02.0	What's going on everyone?
0:04.0	What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are doing
0:17.2	Orchard Week here with Cameron Acrami. He is the man behind The Busy
0:21.2	Gardner over on YouTube, Instagram Instagram and a new website and we talked
0:26.4	yesterday about this idea of high density planting for your fruit trees, two to three
0:31.9	to four trees in a single hole or just really closely spaced.
0:37.1	And that allows you again to choose different varieties.
0:39.6	You can really grow much more than you normally would be able to but Cameron I think the next question the most obvious follow-up question is okay let's say I have
0:49.5	You know four trees in one hole I want to do citrus how do I actually choose the specific
0:55.3	ones to plant yeah that's a great question I guess I would start off with
1:05.0	saying what do you like? Right.
1:06.0	If you're doing Citrus with anything, especially if space is a little bit of a premium.
1:12.0	You want to get as much yield as you can.
1:15.0	I've got a few I've got a number of different multi-plantings at my property and I've got
1:21.0	citrus multi-plantings and I've got avocados and I've got citrus multi-plantings and I've got avocados and I've got stone fruit like you know
1:27.3	Nectareens and peaches and so I think it would boil down to starting out with what kind of fruit do you actually like.
1:35.2	If you don't like citrus, don't plant citrus.
1:38.4	For me, I have generally organized it around kind of the species like mandarins for example.
1:45.8	I've got a beautiful little three and one planting of mandarins,
1:48.6	which I've set summa, which gives us from November to March.
1:53.0	Then from February to May, Honey Mandarin is available and then Gold Nugget is available for from April through the summer.
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