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 ...

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 a hands-on demonstration by Joe Sabol, other members the California Rare Fruit Growers Society and Cal Poly students. The grafted trees will be cared for in the school greenhouse, which was built ...

This is the fifth video in a 5 part series on seed saving for fruit and vegetable plants. In this episode (Ep5) I explain how I save plants in the category I call "Cuttings & grafting" from our food ...

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 ...

Fruit trees have become very expensive to buy. Most are well north of $20 each. Some are $25 or more, but you can build your own for about $5 each. Building your own fruit trees is easy. Scion wood, ...

Among all fruit trees, the apple tree likely reigns supreme. From legendary tales of Johnny Appleseed spreading seeds across the land to the classic saying about keeping the doctor away, and even its ...

Among the pleasures of being a UC Master Gardener are the monthly seminars, where we are instructed by experts. Some of these authorities are homegrown; others are imported. One recent speaker was ...

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 ...

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