Answer: I’ve been hearing more and more about vegetable grafting for commercial production and wanted to know more, so I posed this week’s question myself. Grafting, in general, is a common method for ...

In South Louisiana, all of the citrus trees we grow are grafted. So, too, are many other fruit and nut trees, rose bushes and camellia plants. Grafting is a common horticulture technique. It's an ...

Recently, I was visiting my sister at Wrightsville Beach and we were invited to a tomato tasting party. Because I love tomatoes, I was looking forward to attending this summer party. When we arrived, ...

While the term “grafting” is widely used among gardeners, a true understanding of grafting and why it is done is not so common. In a nutshell, grafting is a horticultural technique that joins parts ...

A new technique for creating fruit and vegetables with the skin of one variety and the flesh of another could make crops more resistant to pests and droughts. A lot of the fruit and vegetables we eat ...

A few years ago, I saw my first grafted tomato plant in a seed catalog and I was blown away. On the front page was a tomato plant filled with heirloom tomatoes, and potatoes growing at the base. The ...

In the best of all possible worlds, says Frank Santamour, all plants would be like poplar trees: a homeowner would stick a branch in the ground in his back yard and have a tree. But nature seldom ...

When I was growing up, my mother was influential in the planting of a number of trees and shrubs in our hometown. One such area was a planting of weeping cherries. A few years later, she noticed a ...

Grafting as a means of vegetative propagation is well known. Less well known is that genes may move from one plant to another by grafting. Recently, Stegemann and Bock (2009) showed that genetic ...