The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

Grafting

Fruit trees, Grafting

Easy Grafting for Easy Fruit

When I was a little kid and read about grafting for the first time in the book Florida Gardening, I…
Fruit trees, Grafting

Pears Grafted Onto Hawthorn: An Update

In April I undertook an experiment: I grafted pear scions onto a hawthorn tree growing at a friend’s house. My…
Figs, Fruit trees, Grafting

A successful fig graft!

My fig tree graft worked! That’s a cleft-grafted Texas Everbearing fig added to an unknown variety I planted a few…
Chickasaw plum, Fruit trees, Grafting, Nectarines, Peaches, Plums, Videos

Video of nectarines, peaches and plums grafted onto my Chickasaw plum

Grafting nectarines, peaches and plums onto a Chickasaw plum? Yep, it can be done! Just put this little graft update…
Chickasaw plum, Fruit trees, Grafting, Nectarines, Peaches, Plums

More Chickasaw plum grafts – Grafting successes and failures

We had almost a 100% success rate with our Chickasaw plum grafting this year. Behold! Those two grafts are from…
Food Forest, Fruit trees, Grafting, Hawthorn

Grafting Pear onto Hawthorn

I’ve read that it’s possible to use wild hawthorn trees as a root stock for pear, though I’ve never had…
Apple, Fruit trees, Grafting

King David Apple Graft is Taking!

It’s nice to grow things named after yourself, isn’t it? That’s a King David apple scion I received from Steven…
Grafting

Grafting Sweet Cherry Onto Black Cherry

My black cherry tree is in bloom right now. This is its second year blooming and it has a lot…
Chickasaw plum, Fruit trees, Grafting, Nectarines, Peaches, Plums

Grafting Nectarines and Peaches on a Chickasaw Plum

I’ve posted a couple of times on the Chickasaw plum (one of our wild native plums) I planted in the…
Creatures, Food Forest, Grafting

Birdhouses and nectarine grafts

I hung one of my friend Connie’s homemade birdhouses in my festooned seedling peach tree the other day. The wood…