If you’re growing your own fruit trees from scratch, a lot happens in spring, and it’s worth paying attention! To help you keep track of all the different aspects of your rootstock and grafting care, we’ve summarised spring’s jobs. Read the ar [...]

When you’re growing your own peach trees from seed at home, the truth is it doesn’t really matter what variety of peach you use as a source of seed—whatever variety you have will do! Some varieties will grow a great rootstock, some not so good [...]

Every fruit tree in your garden should be pulling its weight, which means it should be fulfilling the purpose you have in mind for it. If it’s not, grafting may be the solution, and while you can still be doing the last of  the winter (well, s [...]

Every fruit tree in your garden should be pulling its weight, which means it should be fulfilling the purpose you have in mind for it. If it’s not, grafting may be the solution. Winter is the time to be making some decisions about which trees [...]

There are two great reasons to do some budding (summer grafting) this year; the first is to continually improve your garden so that every fruit tree is pulling its weight, i.e., fulfilling the purpose you have in mind for it. The second reason [...]

Ever wondered why we grow so many heritage varieties here? One reason is that we want to help preserve them, and the best way to do that is to grow them, but the other reason is that many modern varieties are not easily available to small grow [...]

Grafting your own fruit trees is a great way to change varieties in your garden, preserve a heritage variety, or add a polliniser to a tree that flowers well, but doesn’t produce much fruit. We’ve already shown you  how to grow your own rootst [...]