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 ...

APTOS — Some of the tastiest fruits can”t be bought. Not because they”re too expensive, but because they don”t exist in stores. However, they can be grown — cloned, actually — by the average backyard ...

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 ...

When I first tried grafting a 'Fuji' apple tree nearly 20 years ago, I was a bit skeptical. It just looked like a skill better left to the pros. However, the process was pretty easy and actually quite ...

It takes some study, skill and practice to graft. Greg Giuliani, a home fruit grower and a member of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society, shared an article he wrote on storing scion, the wood cutting from ...

The great thing about working with plants and plant people is watching things grow and observing how they change. It seems I learn so much everyday, just from talking with colleagues about ...

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 ...

Use clean pruners to make a cut at a 45-degree angle near the end of the branch. Trim the tip of the branch straight across ...

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 ...

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 is how to propagate an apple tree from ...