Grow Fruit in Cold Climates

Harvesting rainwater with Brad Lancaster.

Zach Loeks on a versatile piece of equipment for gardens, market gardens, and building edible landscapes: The 2-wheel tractor.

Stefan Sobkowiak talks about how to create a permaculture orchard.

Sea buckthorn, highbush cranberry, hardy kiwi, bush cherries, and chokecherry with Laurie Brown from Cultur’Innov.

Aronia, haskap, and elderberry with Laurie Brown from Cultur’Innov.

Grafting apple trees with Steven Edholm. (Yes, Frankentrees!) Getting scion wood, rootstock, grafts for beginners, and using household supplies.

Fragrant cold-hardy citrus. Some you can even eat fresh off the tree. Find out about cold-hardy citrus and methods for growing citrus in cold climates.

We talk about growing quince with Joseph Postman; and talk about cooking root vegetables with Jennifer MacKenzie, who shares recipes from her book The Complete Root Cellar Book.

Bob Bors talks about how to grow haskap, an early and very cold-tolerant fruit.

Jane Steward, author of Medlars – Growing & Cooking, talks about how to grow medlar, how to cook medlar — and shares some fascinating medlar history.

Daniel Speck from Henry of Pelham winery talks about how to grow grapes, European wine grapes, North American labrusca grapes—and hybrid grapes.

Mark Wolbers, president of the Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers Association, talks about growing fruit north of 60.

Susan Poizner talks about how to have your own apple-tasting event, and explains how to prune fruit trees.

Steven Biggs talks about why lemon trees are a good plant to start with if you’re thinking of growing citrus in a cold climate.

Adina Oosterwijk, the Community Greening Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia talks about community outreach and home food gardens that are productive and aesthetically pleasing.

Dani Baker, author of The Home-Scale Forest Garden, talks about planning, planting, and caring for a forest garden.

In this episode: Summer vegetable garden succession crops, growing in pots, and tomato support with Niki Jabbour; and hardy apples and growing apples in cold climates with Bob Osborne.

In this episode: Cold-hardy fruit with Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano and gardening for native pollinators with Sheila Colla and Lorraine Johnson.

In this episode: Chickens in the garden with Lisa Steele, and growing fruit trees with Susan Poizner.

Talking about gardening in wind, horticultural therapy, ornamental edibles, and gardening with children with Charlie Dobbin and Perla Sofia Curbelo.

Susan Poizner talks about the virtual apple tasting she recently held to raise money for her community orchard.

Nan Stefanik talks about growing quince. Helen Battersby talks about the Toronto & Golden Horseshoe Gardener’s Journal

Paul DeCampo talks about growing pawpaw in Ontario.

Jennifer Lauruol on edible front yards, sensory gardens, and native plants

Neal Peterson hunted down lost pawpaw varieties to use for his pawpaw breeding work

Christy Wilhelmi talks about how to grow fruit in small spaces

Jeremy Cooper talks about foodscaping

We chat with forest garden designer and edible landscaper Mark Lord about lesser know fruiting plants.