White-Washing Trees?
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today we kick off a week with Charles Malki, a plant expert with a specific focus on fruit trees. As a new homeowner, I’m learning a lot about fruit tree care and specifically a little-known practice called “white-washing”.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:03.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to an awesome week here on the Epic |
| 0:17.4 | Gardening podcast. Our guest today is Charles Malki. Now I found him on |
| 0:22.0 | YouTube of all places. He's got a fantastic channel there |
| 0:25.7 | but there's a lot more going on with Charles. He's the author of the book Saving the World |
| 0:30.0 | with the Home Garden, improve our planet's health with natural gardening lessons. |
| 0:34.0 | He has a degree in biology and he's the plant expert for Ivy Organics, which is a gardening product company, |
| 0:39.1 | and that's also the name of the YouTube channel that I found him on. So Charles, quite the background and it's |
| 0:44.6 | great to connect and I have to say thank you because you sent out some of your product and I've |
| 0:48.4 | really been loving it so far. |
| 0:49.4 | Fantastic and thank you so much Kevin for having me on the epic gardening |
| 0:55.4 | podcast and it's beyond a pleasure to be here with you |
| 0:59.0 | obviously yeah likewise likewise and i thought we'd started off with a topic that really is the one that I found you with, |
| 1:06.4 | and that would be whitewashing trees, which is something that even as you say it, you just go, |
| 1:11.2 | what does that mean? |
| 1:12.2 | I don't really understand that so I think you |
| 1:14.0 | know especially for a novice fruit tree grower can we talk a little bit about just |
| 1:18.5 | the basics of that? Absolutely so whitewashing is the heart and the foundation of what we built, Ivy |
| 1:26.0 | Organic's company upon. |
| 1:28.8 | And whitewashing is one of the most important gardening concepts and one of the most least understood. |
| 1:37.0 | In gardening encyclopedia of a thousand pages, |
| 1:40.0 | whitewashing might just be a small paragraph on one of the pages relative to all the other |
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