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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 ...
To successfully graft your fruit trees, it helps to know the different techniques you can employ, since each serves different ...
Did you know that almost all fruit trees are grafted? So are most nursery trees, for that matter. Grafting is a method of joining two different varieties of tree, to get the best qualities of both in ...
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 ...
It's your chance to go behind the scenes of a nursery and see how they grow Japanese Maples. Jay Witting from Farmington Gardens joined us to share a little about growing Japanese Maples and how you ...
A few weeks ago we came across a phenomenon along the river that was truly remarkable. Apparently at some point in time a leaning sycamore tree had grown over a cluster of small oak trees. It now ...
Q. A lady has some Japanese maple trees that she has had in pots outside for 12 years! She says they are doing great but she is wondering if she should plant them in the ground. Jessica S. Silver City ...
Twelve-year-old Milo Weinberg remembers the apple tree at Cambridge’s Tobin Montessori School like an old friend. He played around its trunk for years. He learned to ride his bike around it. And when ...