Gardening with Chickens, Grow Fruit Trees

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - Gardening with ChickensIn the first part of the show, we chat with chicken expert and author Lisa Steele.Steele is a Maine Master Gardener and 5th generation chicken keeper.In this episode, she tells us about:Integrating chickens into the gardenWhat to grow for chickensWhat to avoid growingThe pecking order, and how to deal with itUsing chicken manure in the gardenUsing eggshells and cycling them back into the gardenGrow Fruit Trees FastIn the second half of the show, we chat with fruit tree expert Susan Poizner, founder of Orchard People.Poizner is the host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show, a college instructor, and the author of the award-winning book Growing Urban Orchards.In this episode, she tells us about:What to do with fruit trees in the springShopping for fruit treesPruning fruit treesCommon problems first-time fruit tree growers often faceThe community orchard she helped found in Toronto