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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An old tree can be perpetuated by grafting one of its stems onto a young rootstock. Grafting is the joining together of two living plant parts so that the whole grows as one plant. The rootstock ...

LEBANON — Leyah Miller carefully slides a knife blade into the center of a small tree limb and grafts a gravenstein apple twig onto it. “It’s pretty interesting learning how to combine the two limbs,” ...