Growing your own fruit trees can be extremely rewarding, but it won't like turn out the way you hope when it comes to apple ...

Luther Burbank, the famed experimental horticulturalist, called it making old trees young again. But even for novices, fruit tree grafting is alluringly simple: a dormant branch or twig - a scion - is ...

APTOS >> Warm winters have taken a big bite out of local fruit harvests the past few years, leaving Santa Cruz County’s backyard orchardists with slim pickings come harvest time. But the Monterey Bay ...

APTOS — Some of the tastiest fruits can”t be bought. Not because they”re too expensive, but because they don”t exist in stores. However, they can be grown — cloned, actually — by the average backyard ...

Gardeners eager for homegrown food nearly always try to include apples in their production plan — and not just one kind, but one each of yellow, green and red. Few backyards can accommodate three ...

Learn how to grow your own antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum's 21st annual Apple Tree Grafting Seminar at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Participants take home three tree grafts of heirloom nursery stock ...

It takes some study, skill and practice to graft. Greg Giuliani, a home fruit grower and a member of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society, shared an article he wrote on storing scion, the wood cutting from ...

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 ...

While the term “grafting” is widely used among gardeners, a true understanding of grafting and why it is done is not so common. In a nutshell, grafting is a horticultural technique that joins parts ...

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 ...