Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

 I enjoy making new grafts, a lot.  It still feels like magic, taking a stick (scion) from one tree and adding it to a rootstock or shoot of...

 Around five years ago, I moved this Jonagold dwarf tree from my old yard to the current yard.  In it's orivinal spot, it didn't get...

I've never done this before.  I read that if you want a latent bud to grow, you should cut a notch through the bark above the bud.  The ...

 I was reading that for miniature trees, one year old whips should be cut back to knee height -about 2 feet.  That way, they will branch nea...

 It seems like just about perfect time for grafting apples.  We are probably done with hard frosts, the understocks have not started bloomin...