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 is how to propagate an apple tree from ...

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 ...

Last year at this time, I wrote about the tasks of spring, which include getting outside and pruning fruit trees at the family farm. I reported then that we had one peach tree, two grape arbors, two ...

Spring has sprung and that’s good news for gardeners who’ve been eager to dig into the soil once again. If you’re one of the few who’s added fruit trees to your crop list, there’s one practice you may ...

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 ...

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 ...