One of my goals in life is to become an expert at grafting fruit trees. I dream of creating one tree with a dozen different flavors: Cox's Orange Pippin here, Roxbury Russet there. Sweet Sixteen, Mac, ...

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 ...

ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - One of the gardening skills that tend to be forgotten in this day and time is grafting and budding. Grafting and budding are horticultural techniques used to join parts ...

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 ...

Last week I wrote about the various ways that grafting has been used to create street trees and repair injuries on girdled trees. If the snow from yet another March blizzard does not melt quickly, ...

You tasted your first Spitzenburg, were captivated by its sprightly flavor, and now you want to grow your own apple tree. It’s not nearly as easy as planting a seed and watching it grow. To get the ...

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 ...

Want to learn the how’s and why’s of propagating apple trees and changing varieties with the age-old techniques of grafting? Then come to the last class in this spring’s Rutgers Snyder Farm Home ...

What's better than homegrown fruit? Whether it's apples, peaches, or pears, the possibilities are endless—and the local flavor and freshness can't be overstated. The best way to get even more of these ...