I'm quite often asked about recommending a good apple tree book. Especially about training and grafting. There are hundreds out there, s...

It's still too early to see what has taken and what hasn't, but early signs are looking good for this years apple trees.  Th...

Over the last few weeks I've been steadily grafting apple trees in any spare time I have. I tend to do ten or a dozen at a time so I do...

I've managed to put some muck around the base of my trees this week. Some people don't like to do this too much as it can encourage...

They say you learn more through your mistakes than your successes, if that's true then I'm learning a lot. One important thing I le...

I grafted more fruit trees this year than the year before and I had a fair few more failures. This years tree nursery - a little weedy m...

I feel much better now I've started to do this years grafting. Today I managed to graft all my cherry, plum and pear rootstock's....

In the fridge, above the yogurts and beside the butter, there is a bag of wood. Keeping this sort of thing in our fridge is not complet...

My "big" order of fruit tree rootstocks has arrived. A big bundle of rootstocks  For me this is quite a big order of 100 M...

Well last Sunday night I ordered 140 rootstocks for grafting fruit trees this spring. A couple of last years grafts ready to be planted ...

In a break between April showers today I managed to get my grafted trees planted. My tree nursery bed  I dug over a small patch of the...

One of the grafts I did was to propagate this old apple tree. Beautiful old tree This is in my neighbours field where I have been give...

On Saturday and Sunday I finally got round to grafting my apple trees. My root stocks heeled in a pot ready to be grafted  I used the w...

Or at least trying to... Rabbit Damage  Walking around my trees the other day I could see that one had been badly damaged by rabbits (...

The more I've thought about the grafting course the more I've been annoyed about it. I just didn't feel that he taught us the c...

Today My mother and I went on a tree grafting course. I've been struggling what to write about the course as, to be honest, it wasn...