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Orchard People | Cover Crops and Fruit Trees

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Orchard People | Cover Crops and Fruit Trees



















Learn about the benefits and disadvantages of growing cover crops near fruit trees with Christina Curell, Cover Crop and Soil Health Educator at Michigan State University.

Show Notes

What are the benefits and the disadvantages of planting cover crops around fruit trees? Can cover crops on an orchard floor help prevent fruit trees from climate change? Those are just a few of the questions discussed in this episode of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast with expert guest Christina Curell, Cover Crop and Soil Health Educator at Michigan State University.
 
Christina also talks about how to choose a cover crop that will suit your unique fruit tree growing conditions and how to use cover crops to prepare the soil for planting. She outlines the possible disadvantages of choosing the wrong cover crops for your fruit trees as some can attract insect pests and divert energy away from your trees.

Learn all about cover crops in this article.

The prize for this month’s contest was the book Natural Gardening for Birds.

The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.

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What is Orchard People?

Learn to grow fruit trees and food forests, gaining actionable insights in every podcast episode. Join fruit production instructor Susan Poizner as she interviews experts on fruit trees, food forests and permaculture. Winner of the 2021 GardenComm Silver Award of Achievement for Broadcast Media: Radio Program Overall.

All audio, artwork, episode descriptions and notes are property of Susan Poizner, OrchardPeople.com, for Orchard People, and published with permission by Transistor, Inc.



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