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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 29, 2013 – Unusual Backyard Fruit with Lee Reich
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 29, 2013 – Unusual Backyard Fruit with Lee Reich
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Nov 4, 2017
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A Way To Garden-April 29, 2013 Unusual Backyard Fruit with Lee Reich
Apple trees— the fruit everyone thinks they want in their backyards—aren’t easy to grow East of the Rockies, as those who have tried probably noticed when they produced blemished fruit (or required multiple pest-defeating tactics on a strict schedule). And if you’re keeping track, apples aren’t native. Fruit expert Lee Reich offers up two unusual but delicious American native fruit-tree beauties that require little more than to be planted. In print or the latest public-radio podcast, how to grow pawpaws (top photo) and persimmons to perfection.
Lee’s tips for growing pawpaw or American persimmon couldn’t make it sound more appealing, or simple:
“Plant it, water it, and keep weeds and deer away for a couple of years, and then do nothing,” he says. No fancy pruning (like those apples crave), no particular pests–and a big, juicy harvest.
Lee Reich
Apple trees— the fruit everyone thinks they want in their backyards—aren’t easy to grow East of the Rockies, as those who have tried probably noticed when they produced blemished fruit (or required multiple pest-defeating tactics on a strict schedule). And if you’re keeping track, apples aren’t native. Fruit expert Lee Reich offers up two unusual but delicious American native fruit-tree beauties that require little more than to be planted. In print or the latest public-radio podcast, how to grow pawpaws (top photo) and persimmons to perfection.
Lee’s tips for growing pawpaw or American persimmon couldn’t make it sound more appealing, or simple:
“Plant it, water it, and keep weeds and deer away for a couple of years, and then do nothing,” he says. No fancy pruning (like those apples crave), no particular pests–and a big, juicy harvest.
Lee Reich
Released:
Nov 4, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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