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 ...

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 ...

An old tree can be perpetuated by grafting one of its stems onto a young rootstock. Learn how to graft trees that grow multiple fruits and the benefits of why graft trees are worth it. Grafting is the ...

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 ...

Spring has sprung and that’s good news for gardeners who’ve been eager to dig into the soil once again. If you’re one of the few who’s added fruit trees to your crop list, there’s one practice you may ...

Whether you are looking for more variety, an extended harvest, a conversation piece, or just a beautiful spring blooming specimen in your garden, multi-grafted fruit trees are a wonderful option.

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 ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- Pendragon Orchard & Vine has announced the launch of the Pomona Project, an ambitious living experiment in biodiversity, craft, and design. Named for the Roman ...

Grafting joins the roots of one tree with the branch of another, and bringing two trees together into one can give you the best of both. It is the rootstock that determines how the tree grows. It ...

A team of Pacific Northwest permaculturists launches the Pomona Project — a living experiment to graft dozens of fruit varieties onto a single tree. The Pomona Project is engineering a living Rosaceae ...