Success in the nursery
It’s so nice when things work as they’re supposed to! A successful grafted cherry tree in the nursery The grafting in Carr’s Organic Fruit Tree Nursery finished a few weeks ago, and now we can see whether it worked or not. Excitingly, most of them...
In praise of the apple seedling
One of our favourite books from Maine – the apple nerd state If you’ve inherited a garden, or moved into a house with existing fruit trees, there’s a very good chance you won’t know what they are – because it’s a rare homeowner who...
Practical grafting
We thought we’d show you a couple of practical ways you can use grafting to save or improve fruit trees – it’s such a cool way of getting functional fruit trees in your garden for free, that we recommend everyone learn it! Grafting success! You can...
Harvesting rootstock trees
Back in August 2018 we tried an experiment to grow our own rootstock trees, in a technique called a stool bed, and the results are out – we’ve just done our first harvest! Merv harvesting apple trees from Carr’s Organic Fruit Tree Nursery stool bed...