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 ...

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Last week, we introduced growing apples on the prairies and shared the fact that we can grow apples as good as those grown ...

While many people have focused on the health benefits of gardening in recent years, another rewarding aspect of working with plants hasn't received quite as much attention. Gardening promotes ...

The public can learn how to graft apple trees and the best way to plant new ones at Audubon Community Nature Center’s “Apples All Year Long: Planting and Grafting” workshop on Friday. Those who have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advances in production techniques over the years have made it easier for anyone with a small piece of land to grow at least some of their own fruit. One of the techniques we learned early on was the ...

If you haven't seen it already, Zach Galifianakis' This is a Gardening Show on Netflix is worth a watch. In the episode on apple trees, I was most intrigued to learn, as Zach puts it, 'the only way to ...