
The joy of growing your own fruit trees
Growing your own fruit trees is a wonderful life-long hobby, but if you can’t grow your own, try to buy from a local nursery.
Growing your own fruit trees is a wonderful life-long hobby, but if you can’t grow your own, try to buy from a local nursery.
Seed saving for growing your own fruit trees for grafting is an ancient technique that is useful, free, and easy to learn.
Grafting is a practical skill that every fruit grower needs if they want to grow their own trees or make their fruit trees more useful.
Apple trees grow easily from seed, but the seedling trees may not grow good apples unless they’re grafted with a known variety.
Did you know you can grow a whole new fruit tree from a piece of root, using a simple technique called root grafting?
Give fruit tree grafting a go. It can take a bit of practice to get reliable results, but it’s lots of fun and completely free.