The new “The Home Orchard” covers more crops and site selection, variety choice, pruning, grafting, irrigation and integrated ...

Fall isn’t just about pumpkin spice and cozy sweaters—it’s secretly the perfect time to give your fruit trees a little extra ...

Growing fruit on trees is a rewarding experience, but it comes with challenges. From pests and disease to climate stress or ...

When I first tried grafting a 'Fuji' apple tree nearly 20 years ago, I was a bit skeptical. It just looked like a skill better left to the pros. However, the process was pretty easy and actually quite ...

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 ...

Have you ever grafted a fruit tree? All fruit trees must be grafted to reliably reproduce a tree that will yield the same fruit. If you plant an apple seed, you will get an apple tree, but you ...

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 ...

Grafting is a great way to grow more than one variety of fruit on the same tree. (You can produce a "fruit cocktail" tree of, say, lemons, oranges and limes but you need the fruits to be compatible.

To continue from last week's column, another way to propagate plants is through grafting by either buds or scion. This method is used to create a new tree or shrub. Since this is a different form of ...

arol Gorenberg writes: I planted a white Genoa fig tree nine years ago and have kept it compact and nicely shaped to form the focal point of my small, sunny West Santa Rosa yard. It is beautiful and ...

Come to one of our grafting workshops and learn a new skill. The workshops are scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, at the Ron Ramsey Agriculture Center in Blountville. We’ve all wanted to plant an apple ...

What is the right way to plant a fruit tree? A: The next few weeks are the prime time for putting in a new fruit tree. The weather is still cold, so the tops will grow slowly while the roots quickly ...