Start Your Backyard Orchard with Tom Spellman | The Beet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 🤯

Love this new format. You rock.

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

Very informative.

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.

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 YouTube channels). Ditch the overly wrought, confusing and often counter dictating subjects and give us more of Tom! Please!!!

Can we peep that spreadsheet kev? 👀

great guest, love the two camera setup

This was amazing information, thank you.

Great show. Thank you.

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

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

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.