Too Cold for Tender Fruit? Hear What this Prairie Grower Does
🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24
Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.
Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.
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Think your climate is too cold to grow tender fruit?
Find out how this grower harvests peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, and more…despite winter temperatures that can dip to -38°C (-36°F) and a short summer.
In this episode, Donna and Steven chat with Saskatchewan fruit grower Dean Kreutzer.
We talk about:
- Fruit adapted to cold climates
- Using unheated greenhouses to grow tender fruit, grapes…and figs
- Heat sinks and insulated tarps
- Capturing heat from the ground—without an elaborate geothermal heating system
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