The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

grafting

Apple, Fruit trees, Grafting, Mango

Topworking Mango Trees – From Seedling to Delicious!

There are quite a few mango trees growing on our new homestead. I recently featured one huge specimen in a…
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…
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Big sweet cultivated plums harvested off a Chickasaw plum graft

I have been remiss in my garden reporting duties. A couple of weeks ago I took a picture and it’s…
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…
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…
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…
Grafting, Mulberry, Tools

Grafting a mulberry tree

The mulberry tree (Morus nigra) in my front-yard food forest has proven to be a less-than-exciting variety. Here it is:…
Chickasaw plum, Fruit trees, Grafting

Grafting Chickasaw Plums

Last year I performed the above graft of an improved European plum variety onto a native Chickasaw plum and it…
Fruit trees, Grafting, Mulberry, Pear

Taking the top off a tree and changing the variety through grafting

I’ve been studying up on grafting over the last couple of weeks and just found a good post by Lee…
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Crash Gardening S2, Episode 2B: A Tour of My Food Forest (Continued)

Last week I posted part one of my food forest tour… here’s part two. Check out the wide variety of…