While winter may not seem like the time to garden, it's the best time to graft fresh fruit trees in your yard. Here's what you'll need and the steps to follow.
Make sure that the cambium of the scions is lined up and in contact with that of the stump. Use this step-by-step guide to cleft grafting fruit trees and start a one-tree apple orchard. How many folks ...
Learn how to grow your own antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum’s 37th Antique Apple Tree Grafting Seminar on Sunday, March 1. For $40, participants will learn traditional apple grafting ...
Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...
Luther Burbank, the famed experimental horticulturalist, called it making old trees young again. But even for novices, fruit tree grafting is alluringly simple: a dormant branch or twig - a scion - is ...
With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question we receive is how to propagate an apple ...
Late winter is the perfect time to start getting your fruiting trees and shrubs ready for spring. Now is a good time for pruning and planting. And it is a great time to graft! Grafting is a method of ...
Learn how to grow your own antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum's 21st annual Apple Tree Grafting Seminar at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Participants take home three tree grafts of heirloom nursery stock ...
Gardeners eager for homegrown food nearly always try to include apples in their production plan — and not just one kind, but one each of yellow, green and red. Few backyards can accommodate three ...