You can get several varieties of fruit on a single tree with grafting. Here’s what to know. While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his quarter-acre garden, Drew Bohan has more varieties of fresh fruit than any supermarket — currently 70, and growing. That includes six kinds of peaches growing on one tree and eight different ...

Weather delayed delivery of the root stock for Garfield Farm Museum's 32nd annual Antique Apple Tree Grafting Seminar so it has been rescheduled to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 17. For $30, participants ...

Plum trees offer fresh fruit in summer, but they can also take up way too much space in your garden. Try this type of plum tree in your small yard.

Q: From roots, I planted a Santa Rosa plum tree given to me by a Japanese family. The first year, it had leaves and flowers while living in a pot. The following year, I planted it outside, but it did ...

Thousands of crabapple trees arrived on pallets last month, destined to become the rootstock for orchardists in Interior and Southcentral Alaska and April apple tree grafting classes. The 6-foot boxes ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. WILTON — University of Maine Cooperative Extension is set to offer an apple ...