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Plums On The Prairies

A great article detailing plum pollination and many of the Prunus species and cultivars hardy to the Canadian prairies. Written by Rick Sawatzky, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan.   Plums On the...

Plums On The Prairies

A great article detailing plum pollination and many of the Prunus species and cultivars hardy to the Canadian prairies. Written by Rick Sawatzky, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan.   Plums On the...

Growing Apple Trees From Seed

I made a post recently to share my experience growing apples from seed, and I thought it would be good to make it an article here. If you want to...

Growing Apple Trees From Seed

I made a post recently to share my experience growing apples from seed, and I thought it would be good to make it an article here. If you want to...

2022 Season Update - Grafting Pears and Plums t...

Summary - After some initial successes and lessons learned, I started with new methods for the 2022 grafting season in May and tried about a dozen pear varieties and twice as many Prunus, all cold hardy to...

2022 Season Update - Grafting Pears and Plums t...

Summary - After some initial successes and lessons learned, I started with new methods for the 2022 grafting season in May and tried about a dozen pear varieties and twice as many Prunus, all cold hardy to...

Articles and publications of interest to the no...

When you have a question about growing fruit trees, and there are so many good questions to ask - you just google it right? The craziest thing that appears in...

Articles and publications of interest to the no...

When you have a question about growing fruit trees, and there are so many good questions to ask - you just google it right? The craziest thing that appears in...

Thoughts on grafting over a food forest

 This spring has been long anticipated, a large grafting project was planned in the fall and everything needed to fall into place.   Our backyard orchard is about an acre in size...

Thoughts on grafting over a food forest

 This spring has been long anticipated, a large grafting project was planned in the fall and everything needed to fall into place.   Our backyard orchard is about an acre in size...

Grafting Pears and Plums to Wild Choke Cherry a...

This is a topic of great interest to me, and surprisingly has not been clearly studied or documented.  Anecdotal accounts of graft success are out there, often with little follow up or...

Grafting Pears and Plums to Wild Choke Cherry a...

This is a topic of great interest to me, and surprisingly has not been clearly studied or documented.  Anecdotal accounts of graft success are out there, often with little follow up or...