Ep. 100 Fruit Tree Maintenance with Andrew Holsinger

The Good Growing Podcast crew celebrates their 100th episode by talking tree fruit maintenance with University of Illinois horticulture educator Andrew Holsinger. Listen in as they discuss pruning, disease management, mulching, and more. Be sure to stay until the end as Chris has a surprise segment. 4:05 Updates on Tree fruit school. 9:18 Best time to start pruning fruit trees 10:30 Best time to manage Peach leaf curl, cedar apple rust, and applescab 16:00 Best practices to keep your fruit trees healthy 18:04 Mulching fruit trees 19:53 Why would a five-year-old peach tree not produce fruit every year? 23:28 Surprise segment Check out the Good Growing Blog: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowing Subscribe to the weekly Good Growing email: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowingsu... Any products or companies mentioned during the podcast are in no way a promotion or endorsement of these products or companies. -- Want to listen to the podcast? You can find us on most podcast platforms. SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-555304573 iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/good-gr... Tunein https://tunein.com/podcasts/Gardening... Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/202u3si... Vurbl https://vurbl.com/station/good-growin... Listen notes https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/... Ivy https://ivy.fm/podcast/good-growing-1... Castbox https://castbox.fm/channel/Good-Growi... Google podcasts https://bit.ly/3AiYjTD