Tom Spellman’s Top Tips for Thriving Backyard Orchards | The Beet

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this full rerun episode of the Beet Podcast, Tom Spellman, expert orchardist, shares tips for starting and maintaining your very own fruit tree orchard. He covers key growing conditions, and what distinguishes backyard orcharding from commercial orchards. Listen as he and Kevin delve into this topic, and consider designing an orchard yourself! Learn More: The Top 11 Fruit Trees That Look Great in Suburban Landscapes Connect With Tom Spellman: Tom Spellman has 25+ years of experience in the nursery industry, specializing in fruit trees. He's known for the popularization of Backyard Orchard Culture, a method of planting fruit trees at home that maximizes production for the home grower, successive ripening, and unique pruning and plant care strategies that give a home gardener a ton of delicious, sweet fruit. Find more from Tom Spellman on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davewilsonnursery/ Find more from Tom Spellman on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClShqpLDCJ-Q97zk3tsYZAw Find more from Tom Spellman on his Web Site: https://www.davewilson.com/tom-spellman/ Listener Exclusive: As an exclusive for our listeners, use code BEETPODCAST for 10% off your next order (one use per customer) at shop.epicgardening.com! Whether you’re looking for seed-starting supplies, high-quality seeds to plant, or a raised bed or planter to start them in, we have supplies to get you growing. Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop-beet → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests-beet Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube-beet → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog-beet → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup Do You Love Epic Gardening products? Join the Epic Affiliate Program! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've been curious about fruit trees, but a little bit scared to get started.
0:17.1	You've probably heard a name that I've said on this podcast many times, and that name
0:20.8	is Tom Spellman, who Tom is on the podcast today. Welcome to the show. But I think without knowing it,
0:29.1	you've been a mentor, a digital mentor, let's call it, in my own exploration into background
0:35.4	orchard culture, which we're going to talk about this week. So thanks for coming on. Kevin, I couldn't be happier to be here. You know, what you've done here
0:42.7	in the last three to four years is fantastic. I really like your, your property and the efforts
0:48.4	that you put into it. It's a really, really cool project. And I'm complimented in, you know, you saying that you learned some of that from me.
0:58.2	Yeah.
0:58.8	I appreciate that.
0:59.7	No, absolutely.
1:00.6	Absolutely.
1:00.9	I mean, when I first moved into this place, it was kind of Googling around how to get started with an orchard.
1:05.2	And it was your original videos from Dave Wilson Nursery talking about that whole philosophy of backyard orchard
1:11.1	orchiculture. But I'm kind of curious for you, how did this all begin?
1:15.8	Well, I've been in this pretty much all of my adult life, and even as a teenager. I started
1:22.4	in the early 1970s, you know, working for a small in-town retail nursery. I had an opportunity to go
1:31.0	to work later on with Armstrong nurseries in Ontario, California. At the time, they had a huge
1:37.5	wholesale fruit tree and rose program that they were growing and selling retail and other wholesalers.
1:45.0	So I got to work with some early hybridizers and, you know, horticulturalist in production on growing that type of material.
1:54.0	In 1981, I had an opportunity to go to work with Laverne Nursery.
2:00.0	They're Southern California staple.
2:02.6	They've been growing citrus, avocados, tropical fruits, subtropical fruits for many, many years.
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