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Why Pests Can't Attack Healthy Plants with Thomas M. Dykstra
According to Entomologist Thomas M. Dykstra, Ph.D. of Dykstra Laboratories in Gainesville, Florida, insect pests can't attack healthy plants. Learn more and ask your q...
Growing Heirloom Peaches
There are some fantastic heirloom peach cultivars that are not available at your local supermarket....but you can grow them at home! Lawton Pearson of Pearson Farm tal...
How to Grow a Fruiting Wall
Commercial growers are increasingly growing sweet cherries and other fruits in an easy to prune, maintain and harvest fruiting wall structure. Matthew Whiting, Extensi...
Turning Your Backyard into a Food Forest with Dani Baker
Learn how to transform your backyard into a food forest, integrating existing fruit trees and shrubs into the design. Dani Baker, author of The Home-Scale Forest Garde...
Espalier Fruit Trees for Small Gardens
Looking to plant a small fruit tree? Learn how to create espalier fruit tree planting with Ron Perry, Ph.D., co-author of Espalier Fruit Trees for Northern Gardens.
Do Plant Hardiness Zones Matter with Dan McKenney and John Pedlar
In the past, you would consult a plant hardiness zone map if you wanted to know whether a fruit tree or any other plant could survive in your climate. But our climate...
Grow Fruit Trees Fast! with John Cline
How do you encourage young fruit trees to grow faster and produce an earlier harvest? Susan Poizner of OrchardPeople.com chats with John Cline Ph.D, Professor in the ...
Grafting Fruit Trees with Steph Roth
Steph Roth from Silver Creek Nursery in Ontario talks about how she grafts fruit trees. We will cover collecting fruiting wood, rootstock choices, bench grafting and m...
Perry Pears for Cider with Barry Masterson
Cider apples are a hot commodity these days. But what about perry pears? In this episode, Barry Masterson of Kertelreiter Cider, talks about perry and tells us how to ...
Irrigation Systems for Fruit Trees
There is a right way and a wrong way to water your fruit trees and other plants. And how you irrigate will affect the health of your plants and the quality of your har...
Heirloom Fruit Recipes for The Holiday
Learn to use your home grown heirloom fruits in recipes from centuries past. Show guests include orchardist Darren Turpin of Orchardnotes.com, historic cook Paul Couch...
Being a Tree Detective
Lindsay Mitchel, Editor at the International Society of Arboriculture's publication Arborist News and Sarah Ruark, technical advisor at the Davey Institute, the resear...
Food Forest Design with Lincoln Smith
Lincoln Smith from Forested.us explains how listening to the landscape is the secret to growing healthy fruit trees and fruiting plants. Lincoln will talk about some o...
Drought Resistant South West Peaches
Reagan Wytsalucy, Extension Assistant Professor, Agriculture & Natural Resources at Utah State University, talks about her journey to find the last orchards growing th...
Will Nitrogen Fixing Plants Improve Soil Fertility?
Do nitrogen fixing plants and trees actually improve soil fertility? Will your fruit trees benefit if you plant nitrogen fixing plants in your garden? Susan speaks to ...
Custom Fruit Tree Spray Recipes with John Kempf
Learn how to boost your trees health with fruit tree foliar sprays that you can make at home from sugar, molasses, epsom salts...and Coca-cola? Our show guest is regen...
Bury Your Briefs to Evaluate Soil Microbes
Learn why Canadian farmers are burying their briefs to find out if they have beneficial microbes in the soil! Our guests from the University of Guelph are Cameron Ogil...
Soil and Tissue Testing
Jack Legg, an agronomist from SGS Canada, talks about soil and tissue testing and how that can help ensure that your fruit trees and plants have the nutrients they need.
Growing Blueberries with Kathleen Demchak
What is the secret of growing blueberries successfully? In this episode of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast we speak to Kathleen Demchak, Senior Extension Ass...
Creating a "Tree of 40 Fruit" with Sam Van Aken
Sam Van Aken is an award winning artist and an associate professor in the Art Department of Syracuse University who uses grafting techniques to create his "Tree of 40 ...
When To Fertilize Fruit Trees with Robert Crassweller
When is the best time to fertilize fruit trees? In this episode Tree Fruit Production Extension Specialist Robert Crassweller, Ph.D. from Penn State College of Agricul...
Native Apple Trees with Paul Kron
Most apple trees that we grow in our gardens and orchards are not native to North America. DNA tells us that these trees originate in the mountains of Kazakhstan in Ce...
Apple Tasting Party
Learn how to taste different apple cultivars and varieties like the experts do with Dr. Amy Bowen, Director, Consumer Insights Group at Vineland Research and Innovatio...
How to Prune Old Fruit Trees with Bob Lever
Old fruit trees may be hollow but they can still produce fantastic fruit and they provide invaluable habitat to wildlife, sometimes for very unique and specific specie...
Growing Fruit Trees in Extreme Climates
Learn to grow fruit trees in extreme climates with Greg Peterson of UrbanFarm.org.
Community Orchards in the UK and Beyond
Learn the secrets of establishing a successful community orchard with Lewis McNeill of The Orchard Project in the United Kingdom.
Bee Garden Design and Fruit Trees
Learn to create a garden with native plants that will attract bees and other beneficial insects with Lorraine Johnson, co-author of the free eBook: "A Flower Patch for...
Vertical Mulching and Worms in Soil
Vertical mulching using worms has been shown to help improve heavily compressed soil according to Glynn Percival, Lab Manager at Bartlett's Tree Research and Diagnosti...
Biochar and Fruit Trees
Biochar can improve the carbon levels in your soil. But how will that help your fruit tree's health and productivity? Mark and Laurie Mann of the American Biochar Comp...
Cover Crops and Fruit Trees
Learn about the benefits and disadvantages of growing cover crops near fruit trees with Christina Curell, Cover Crop and Soil Health Educator at Michigan State Univers...
