Make your own fruit trees Sunday at Scion Exchange - Sacramento Bee (blog)

Make your own fruit trees Sunday at Scion Exchange Sacramento Bee (blog) Grafting demonstrations and advice also will be offered. The number of backyard fruit tree "farmers" is growing every year, notes Drew Bohan, who is helping to organize the event. With grafting, growers can create their ideal tree including multiple ... and more »

How To Find Fantastic Japanese Maples - Patch.com

How To Find Fantastic Japanese Maples Patch.com Bright sunlight and hot summers do not kill these trees but, in hot summer areas, the newest leaves may burn and scald in these conditions. The cultivars are all grafted. Normally they are grafted close to the top of the soil line, but most dissectums ...

Tips on how to share your favorite plants - Napa Valley Register

Tips on how to share your favorite plants Napa Valley Register Citrus can be grafted to citrus; figs to figs; and stone fruits, such as peaches and plums, can be grafted to each other. The possibility of oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruits thriving on one tree is not a fantasy. A grafted tree has two parts: The ... and more »

Citrus viruses a real threat - Porterville Recorder

Citrus viruses a real threat Porterville Recorder It especially infects trees that are grafted onto sour orange rootstocks. Up until just three years ago, the CCTEA, a grower-funded agency that now does business as the broader Citrus Pest Detection Program, mandated the removal of citrus trees ...

Cundall: Hazelnuts - Weekly Times Now

Cundall: Hazelnuts Weekly Times Now This is an appalling way to mow grass, but it was done deliberately around a hazelnut tree. The nut crop is about to mature and I want to harvest as many as possible without long grass getting in the way as I rake up the fallen nuts.