Graft Apple Trees at Home: Easily Make the Cut
Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping · Steven Biggs: Horticulturist and edible landscaping expert.
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Show Notes
Steven Edholm is a California homesteader who teaches a wide variety of self-reliance skills.
He is passionate about grafting fruit trees. He's created trees that have over 100 varieties.
In this episode, he explains how to graft apple trees at home.
We talk about:
- Reasons to graft apple trees
- Apple trees with lots of grafts (Frankentrees!)
- Cutting and storing apple scion wood
- Apple rootstock
- Supplies for apple tree grafting (spoiler alert: what you DON’T need to buy)
- Best grafts for beginners
- Solving common apple-grafting problems
Steven has a grafting video series on his YouTube channel.
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