Start Your Backyard Orchard with Tom Spellman | The Beet

[@TheButterflySoulfire]

Very informative.

[@CKemmerle1]

These interviews with all these high caliber people are a tresure trove. You gotta promote this channel more on the Epic channels so your subscribers get this info

[@djrbignell]

Agree!

[@ilianagamboa3272]

Very knowledgeable man in his field. Thank you for having him.

[@DDWASH9595]

Thank you for having this man on I’m subbed to his personal channel too. Man has more years of horticultural knowledge than I’ve been alive #28

[@cptnd3851]

great guest, love the two camera setup

[@julipolito7761]

Awesome, posting! So much info! Thank you! 🌵🪴🌿

[@not1moreinch332]

This man has forgot more about orchards than i will ever know. I respect him so much

[@Dirt-Fermer]

I like the thought behind this comment

[@FunAtDisney]

To Kevin and the Epic Gardening podcast team: This was hands down the best week of shows I have listened to in months on your podcast! And the reason is simple: Your guest Tom related everything he talked about to the average home gardener who has an average-sized property in an average neighborhood. So many of your podcast lately have been the exact opposite (the wacky “permaculture” one comes to mind). Of one week you have someone talking about letting your garden look like a forest and allowing all the dropper fall leaves to stay. The next week you get just the opposite where the person says you must rack those all of because of diseases and all. Still another will talk endlessly about the dozens often things you must do to compare pest and fungus and this and that…. All to the point I shut it off! Sometimes I think you all forgot the number one thing: Gardening for the home should be fun! A hobby for relaxation and enjoyment. Not something you need to constantly stress over (that is what your weekday job is for!). You need to get back to understanding what your audience is within your podcast (as you mostly do on your KZbin channels). Ditch the overly wrought, confusing and often counter dictating subjects and give us more of Tom! Please!!!

[@kimberlydickenson9141]

This was amazing information, thank you.

[@ivanguajardo7111]

Tom did an interview where he basically disproves everything he just said about zone compatibility. In the other interview he points out how friends of his and people he has met plant trees not intended for the zone acclimate and adapt at a young age and actually thrive where they're not supposed to. I think sometimes you just need to stick the tree in the ground let it decide if it wants to thrive.

[@falynch]

But that's not contraindicating at all. There's a difference between sharing someone's experiences and premoniting best practice. He's promoting orchard planning here, not experimention. It's not a good idea to plan a orchard on the hopes you'll find the rare exceptions but to pick varieties that are known to do well in your area. Planting for experimenting and planting for fruit production are 2 separate every different purposes

[@Dirt-Fermer]

I mean if you can get 1000 zone 6 seeds you can probably get 20 to grow in zone 4

[@121080hulk]

This video is a bunch of knowledge. I will watch this over and over

[@nexrace]

I can't watch very long, I get so inspired to start more garden projects!

[@tommyhundersmarck7018]

Me living in sweden, hearing all this about getting enough chill hours.. only thing we talk about is getting enough sun hours.

[@russellstraker8040]

Good one thanks wish you a prosperous future.

[@glendaross692]

Great show. Thank you.

[@jayjohnson3724]

Love this new format. You rock.

[@effiedreamweaverboustead8802]

Great conversation. I do find it harder to discern what will do best in my area. I have a nice size spot to put in an orchard and am working towards that, but not yet started. The one surprise I had during this convo was about multiple trees in one hole 🤯

[@Dirt-Fermer]

Try mulberries if you haven’t planted anything yet. They grow fast

[@breik8183]

Can we peep that spreadsheet kev? 👀

[@TanjaHermann]

So interesting and great information for me despite being in a completely different climate zone here in Germany. Today, I have three cherries and two plums to plant but I'm still unsure when to do the first pruning. I have selected varieties on bush root stock but on two of the cherries it still says final height 18-21 feet. Currently, they are 3-4 feet tall incl. root stock and have 3-4 nicely spaced branches that the nursery cut back before shipping. Do I now let them grow for a full year or do I need to prune this summer? Any advice would be appreciated. I'm planting them less than 3 feet apart.

[@falynch]

Prune this summer, I'd also recommend staking out and tie in the branches where you want them to be. The first and second year are the most important in developing the shape you want. You can also bend branches downwards to create a weeping form and this will reduce vigor as well as encouraging earlier fruit production. I made the mistake of not doing this with my first cherry trees planted on colt. Now the tress form is very uneven and main branching out is way above head height. Now all my trees I've pruned and staked to get the shape and pickable height. My first trees the only way to correct now is a brutal topping and will lose 2-3 years of fruit whilst I correct my mistakes

[@falynch]

I've also earned to bud graft and graft and on the main stems I'll leave 1 as the variety and the other 3 grafting over to different varieties that flower at the same time but fruit at different times and a cooker. Fruit all season all as you'll never use hundreds of pounds of cherries or plums all at once and they don't keep fresh for a long time

[@AudelC-k8l]

The unnamed large chain store is home depot for sure 😂

[@ggrunau]

Great information. New to the fruit tree game... I want to try a (3) peach tree grouping here in a small Cleveland, OH lot ... any suggestions; taking into account rootstock compatibility and successive ripening? Thanks.

[@wild-radio7373]

🥰👍

[@TheWiseOne6775]

Great interview. I learned so much. I would love to know if I want to plant a few different stone fruits in one hole, do I need to plant only the same type or can I plant say a plum, a peach, a cherry in the one hole. Or is it better to have all plums in one hole? TIA

[@Jaay_562]

I think I’d stick with the haas and fuerte and then graft scions of other varieties to them later on. That would be good content

[@sheilafade2016]

Mr. Spellman, I bought this Alberta peach really cheap but I live in Houston, Tx, zone 9, the Alberta peach has more chill hours for my area, mine is like 450, will this affect this tree? Will I get peaches? Or will I chalk it up as a loss?

[@vonn2221]

Hi kevin, actually i have an question to mr Tom. I do wish to plant some fruit tree like orange etc (sweet type), however my yard location is very shady and because my climate is tropical, usually at midday it can get very hot Can i paint the pot of my fruit tree with black colour to help it retain more heat that can converse the fruit to be more sweet? Any information will be very helpful, thank you And i also live in city, which usually cars passed by

[@catejordan7244]

Great information. I just wish it didn’t focus so much on citrus as I’m sure many other viewers, like myself (Canada) are in a climate that can’t grow citrus.

[@thebeetpodcast]

Great point! We'll try to get more information on orchard selection that's more appropriate to the northern parts of the US and Canada in the future.

[@NN-fz4pd]

Yeah that would be appreciated !!

[@audas]

Mandarines and Oranges need warmth and sun - they ripen in winter.

[@drillsergeant623]

Why did Tom Spellman get fired? Why are you steeling other people’s videos.

[@jessieramos1676]

I wish the host would at least feign interest in what Tom has to say. How rude!. He looks bored out of his mind.

[@futureenergy5408]

Too much conversation and too little content

[@kurtkalauch6053]

The conversation is the content

[@parvathitiruviluamala9870]

Great video. Where can i buy a Fuerte Avocado tree ? Or a Furte/Haas combo ? I saw on one of your videos that you have one. Thank you 39:06

[@thebeetpodcast]

Fuertes can be a bit hard to source - check with local tree nurseries in your area. It's uncommon to see a multi-grafted Fuerte-Hass combination, so you might need separate trees to have both.