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 ...

Learn how to grow antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum's 34th Antique Apple Tree Grafting Seminar at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 13. For $35, participants make three grafts of heirloom varieties to ...

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 ...

Learn how to grow antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum's 35th Antique Apple Tree Grafting seminar on Sunday, March 5. It will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the museum, off Garfield Road in Campton ...

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 ...

While the term “grafting” is widely used among gardeners, a true understanding of grafting and why it is done is not so common. In a nutshell, grafting is a horticultural technique that joins parts ...

It may be the season for cold and rain, but this is the perfect time for grafting different varieties onto your deciduous fruit trees. The Foothill chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers is ...

Rare-fruit growers in Sonoma County hold a scion swap and offer demonstrations on how to graft many different fruits onto a single tree. Thousands of varieties of trees, vines and shrubs bear edible ...

Want to add more fruit trees to your backyard but don’t have the space? Grafting may be the answer; you can add several varieties to a single trunk. Learn how – and get everything you need for success ...

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...

Ready to learn how to graft? Or is it just time to “up” your grafting game? Join the Monterey Bay chapter of California Rare Fruit Growers from 3-6 p.m. Sunday, at the Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange, 1900 ...