While winter may not seem like the time to garden, it's the best time to graft fresh fruit trees in your yard. Here's what ...

Thousands of crabapple trees arrived on pallets last month, destined to become the rootstock for orchardists in Interior and Southcentral Alaska and April apple tree grafting classes. The 6-foot boxes ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

The great thing about working with plants and plant people is watching things grow and observing how they change. It seems I learn so much everyday, just from talking with colleagues about ...

Spring has sprung and that’s good news for gardeners who’ve been eager to dig into the soil once again. If you’re one of the few who’s added fruit trees to your crop list, there’s one practice you may ...

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...