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Growing Fruit Trees: A Beginner's Guide

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Urban orchardist and fruit tree care educator Susan Poizner shares proven secrets for growing healthy, productive organic fruit trees. Course can be completed in 1 hour. Price is in USD.

Three Reasons Why You Need this Course

Fruit trees can be productive and beautiful - or they can be a messy liability.  New growers often plant fruit trees expecting generous harvests for years to come. But fruit trees need hands-on-care to thrive. In this course, urban orchardist Susan Poizner teaches you beginner-friendly secrets to growing organic fruit trees successfully. 

Avoid Heartache

Most new growers plant varieties vulnerable to common diseases. Susan will teach you how to choose easier trees that will thrive in your unique conditions.

Save Time

Don't wait until your trees have problems and then waste hours searching for solutions online. Susan will teach you easy tree-care habits that keep your trees healthy right from the start.

Enjoy a Fantastic Harvest

Did you know that the secret to healthy fruit trees and successful harvests is correct annual fruit tree pruning? Susan will teach you why pruning is important, and teach you how to prune your newly planted tree.

Grow Healthy Fruit Trees Today

Reap Rewards Faster

Growing your own fruit trees can be enormously rewarding – or a costly frustration, depending on a lot of factors. You don’t need years of experience of fancy equipment to be successful. You DO need to master specific pruning, feeding, watering and pest management techniques to maximize your trees’ health and productivity. Our course shows you how!

This course includes: 

35-minutes of video lessons

Enjoy lifetime access to these video lessons that will teach you about feeding fruit trees, pruning them, and protecting them from pests and diseases.

Our award-winning eBook "Growing Urban Orchards"

This 111-page fruit tree care book won the Garden Writers' Association Silver Award of Achievement 2014 (Book Writing: General Readership).

Contents

Course students include home growers, community orchardists, master gardeners, landscapers and arborists from across North America and around the world.

Welcome to the Course!

Welcome to course!
Susan's Story
Your Course: A Guided Tour

Creating Your Orchard Space

Cultivars and Location
Quiz 1: Test Your Knowledge
eBook: Tree Choice & Location (42 pages)
eBook: Fruit Tree Nursery List (6 pages)

Fruit Tree Care

Good Fruit Tree Care Habits
eBook: Planting & Young Tree Care (14 pages)
eBook: Feeding Your Tree (15 pages)
Quiz 2: Test Your Knowledge

Pruning & Pest and Disease Prevention

Pest Prevention and Pruning
Scouting and Disease
eBook: Pruning (13 pages)
eBook: Preventing Pests & Diseases (34 pages)
Quiz 3: Test Your Knowledge
Bonus Video: Pruning Old Fruit Trees

Resources and Next Steps

Next Steps in Fruit Tree Care
A Quick Review
More Resources for You
Growing Urban Orchards: Entire eBook
Bonus eBook: Top 5 Fruit Tree Pruning Tools

Testimonials

Will you enjoy this course? See what other students say! 

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Excellent for beginners.   Gives a good understanding of the basic issues that I need to understand about planting and caring for fruit trees in an urban environment.    Thanks Susan. 

Dean Goodman, Ontario, CA

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Very informative from a great teacher! Fantastic fruit tree care basics formatted in an easy to follow video webinar. I would definitely recommend this to anyone growing fruit trees. 

Thomas Nelson, Washington State, US

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Thanks for the concise overview. I've watched some of your webinars before and liked how this tied things together for a new fruit tree owner. I now have more clarity around certain things, particularly pruning. Thanks! 

Alex Verge, Ontario, CA

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The content was very accessible, has given me more confidence with my young orchard in terms of pruning & better establishing my seasonal care calendar. I'm also feeling excited to keep learning!

Naty Tremblay, Ontario, Canada

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I loved this. It was very well put together. I purchased this course quite a few years ago and am kicking myself for not looking at it until now. Thank you so much for the information and the work you have done. 

Lori Olson, USA

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Thank you. This was a pleasure, well organized appealing lessons and reading.

Jamey Bontrager-Singer, Indiana, USA

Get to Know Your Instructor

You can reach out to your instructor at any time by posting your question in the discussions linked to each lesson.

Susan Poizner is an urban orchardist and an ISA Certified Arborist. She is the author of the award-winning book Growing Urban Orchards and of Grow Fruit Trees Fast.

Susan is also a former instructor of Fruit Production at
Niagara College in Canada. She is the host of the award-winning Urban Forestry Radio Show and director of the fruit tree care training website at OrchardPeople.com.

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