This is the fifth video in a 5 part series on seed saving for fruit and vegetable plants. In this episode (Ep5) I explain how I save plants in the category I call "Cuttings & grafting" from our food ...
The workshops are part of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association's annual Organic Orcharding Workshop Series.
Dear Neil: I’m seeing the landscape guys putting mounds of mulch around tree trunks in town. Is that really a good idea? It seems like it would cause decay in the wood of the trunks.
Yes, it’s still officially winter. Roses are the quintessential summer flower. But repeat blooming roses such as floribunda ...
This is why seeds saved from these kinds of trees do not produce fruit true to the fruit from which they were saved; they're actually two trees." Because of this, burying your fruit tree above the ...
As the early morning mist lifts over the plains of northern Uganda, women gather at the Pader Shea Nut and Agro-processing ...
Dear Neil: I’d like to have a small backyard orchard. Could I grow fruit trees from seed and then graft the better varieties onto them to save myself some money? A: Unless you’re already ...
You can experiment with sowing seeds from an apple you eat. Bear in mind that they'll be many years before they'll produce fruit. The tree will get very large unless you get a specialist to graft a ...