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- How I'm Processing Food from the Garden | Fruit Talk! w/ Ross Raddi -- EP: 77
During this portion of the season a lot of my time is spent on harvesting and therefore about half of my time is actually spent away from the garden/orchard and instead I'm in the kitchen. Processing, cooking, preserving, pickling, reducing. You name it. This is the episode about using my homegrown food in the kitchen.
41 min - My Journey to Eat Amazing Melons | Fruit Talk! w/ Ross Raddi -- EP: 76
After visiting Japan years a couple years ago and experiencing the best melon of my lifetime, I was instantly hooked. This year I am enjoying some from my own garden. See where I'm at in this journey to bring a piece of Japan back to Philadelphia.
30 min - Downsizing the Fig Collection Pt. 2 | Fruit Talk! w/ Ross Raddi -- EP: 75
A bit of clarification on my perspective about the varieties I grow I thought was needed after last week's comments. Plus semi-final insight into the varieties I believe to be superior.
35 min - Downsizing the Fig Collection | Fruit Talk! w/ Ross Raddi -- EP: 74
With the recent rain and hurricane that came through the Philadelphia area along with it came a wake up call. A wake up call to all fig collectors. This cannot continue.
33 min - Summer Garden Plans for 2021 | Fruit Talk! w/ Ross Raddi -- EP: 73
In this episode of fruit talk! I talk about my plans for my 2021 summer garden. What I'll grow, what I liked from my 2020 garden and how I'll accomplish this.
1 hr 5 min - 15 Steps to Success: Fig Checklist | Fruit Talk! w/ Ross Raddi -- EP: 72
A checklist for all fig growers to ensure a successful harvest and happy trees.
- Make sure there is adequate light penetration into the canopy of your tree. Bend limbs and prune accordingly to open the canopy. Thin new shoots at bud break. Train figs as a tree form or as a cordon when possible. A bush should have no more than 3-6 trunks from the base. Trees with no more than 3-6 scaffolds.
- Have a well draining & consistently moist soil. Not wet. Not dry. Consistently slightly drier than moist for optimum fruit quality.
- Applications of 10-4-12 should be applied 4-6 times early in the growing season. Preferably stopping after fruit set. Cover all micro nutrients and trace elements. Specifically calcium, magnesium & silica.
- Remove weeds, unnecessary suckers and any competition.
- Keep winter pruning to a minimum when possible. Remove spindly weak growth & lower growth during dormancy. Diseased, damaged or dead wood at any time.
- Ripen fruits at the height of your season. Usually the driest and warmest time of the year. Your harvest can be timed perfectly with pinching and breba production.
- Ideally wait until the neck of the fig is soft before harvesting OR harvest before a big rain event.
- Choose the right variety for your climate. Focus on varieties that are rain/humidity resistant, crack resistant and dry easily in humid climates, varieties that don't spoil, are very tasty and benefit from caprification in very hot/dry climates and varieties that ripen early and are hardy in short season/cold climates.
- Raise soil temperatures in the spring. Maintain them at or below 95F in the summer. Again raising them in the fall. Sunlight hours, thermal mass, containers & mulch goes a long way.
- Check for scale, spider mites, fungus gnats & borers. I recommend an annual spray of dormant oil, horticultural oil or neem during dormancy. Pick up fallen fruit and remove split fruit to avoid fruit flies and wasps. Use Tanglefoot for ants and slugs. Organza bags or netting for critters.
- Rejuvenation prune and root prune when trees are heavily affected with FMV, growing slowly, sickly or have lower than normal production.
- Allow figs to go dormant when possible.
- Avoid soils that are heavily infested with root knot nematodes. Grow in pots or graft varieties onto LSU Purple.
- Pick up fallen leaves and diseased leaves when struggling with rust issues. Apply silica either at the soil level or as a foliar spray (Dyna-Grow Protekt).
- Reduce water and fertilizer 3 or more months prior to first frost date.
29 min - Make sure there is adequate light penetration into the canopy of your tree. Bend limbs and prune accordingly to open the canopy. Thin new shoots at bud break. Train figs as a tree form or as a cordon when possible. A bush should have no more than 3-6 trunks from the base. Trees with no more than 3-6 scaffolds.
- Creating a Garden & My Summer/Fall Garden | Fruit Talk! w/ Ross Raddi -- EP: 71
Creating a garden is simple. Maybe daunting at first, but having the right soil, having the garden in the right location & the timing of planting your crops are the 3 main things you need to worry about. See how to create a garden in this episode as well as how my summer and fall gardens are doing.
35 min - Ripening Chart: Fruit ALL Year | Fruit Talk! w/ Ross Raddi -- EP: 70
There's a new post on the blog. It's a ripening chart of when fruit will ripen here in the Philadelphia area. I'm using it to fill any potential gaps in fruit production as I feel so much better when 50% or more of my diet is fruit. It's also really good, haha. So this will greatly help my ambition of having fruit all year. Not just during the growing season.
33 min - Planning the Fall Garden - What I'm Growing | Fruit Talk! w/ Ross Raddi -- EP: 69
In this episode of Fruit Talk! I share my plans of a fall/winter garden. It's something you must plant for now to get harvests later. While it can be difficult getting cool loving crops through the heat of the summer, I've been planning or have been planting things like: brassicas, arugula, chard, radish, carrot, beets, the list goes on!
55 min - Luxury Fruit Trees I'm Planting in the Fall | Fruit Talk! w/ Ross Raddi -- EP: 68
In this episode of Fruit Talk! I explain what the hungry gap is, but not necessarily the hungry gap that most growers face after storage crops run low, but instead my hungry gap in July. I'm also mentioning the fruit trees that I'm looking forward the most to tasting one day and why we're planning on planting those this spring. Things like the Comice pear, Asian pears, Goumi, Persimmons and many types of European Plums like the Mirabelles & Gage plums that are always exciting to the taste.
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Hello I'm Ross Raddi. A YouTuber growing food they say you can't. You can grow anything you want. Anywhere. In Fruit Talk! we explain how to do that. It's the podcast for fruit lovers, but not just…
fruit. All things food, how to grow it and how to prepare it.