While winter may not seem like the time to garden, it's the best time to graft fresh fruit trees in your yard. Here's what you'll need and the steps to follow.

While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this work at Gold Ridge, his 11-acre property in Sebastopol. There he grew the famous tree that ...

Have you heard of plant grafting? With this age-old trick, you can get a tree to bear fruit in half the time, not to mention ...

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 ...

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County will offer a hands-on learning opportunity for aspiring fruit growers and home ...

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 ...

GRAFTING ONE FIG TREE ONTO ANOTHER Carol 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 ...

If you have a valuable tree with serious bark damage and are considering removing it, there is a way the tree might be saved — and this is the time of year to do it. We have an “Arkansas Black” apple ...

Late winter is the perfect time to start getting your fruiting trees and shrubs ready for spring. Now is a good time for pruning and planting. And it is a great time to graft! Grafting is a method of ...

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 ...

A dwarf fruit tree consists of at least two parts that are grafted together: The lower portion, the rootstock, has more effect on the tree's growth rate and ultimate height. The upper portion grows ...