Learning to Graft Apples

Propagating a beloved tree

Today we ’re visit with Jocelyn Spicer in Washougal , Washington .

I enjoy checking the GPOD every day or two for stirring . I ’ve been gardening on and off for decades , but this is the first year it ’s really come in into full focus , and it has been unbelievably thought-provoking and implausibly fun . I garden on half an Akka in town . I began in 2019 with several garden projects in mind , but first among them was graftingapple trees . In February , my hubby and I drive through a break in the snow-covered weather to my brother ’s house in Vancouver , Washington , where we took the cutting from a King Malus pumila tree diagram my father had implant back in the 1980s . We do n’t really get it on which variety of King it is , and I am still read about apple tree generally . We popped the cuttings into a plastic bag with moist newspaper towel twine around them , took them home , and tucked them into the drink electric refrigerator next to a bottle of neighborly sangria . A few week later , my brother , my niece , and I got together andgrafted15 trees onto various rootstalk . Lo and behold , 11 of them actually worked ! It was all very exciting . My brother conduct some of them home to his garden , and I plan on growing most of mine in container ( they are graft on mini dwarf radical line ) . I pot them up in a soil admixture of equal share vermiculite , peat moss , and compost . This seemed to keep the moisture well . It was so successful that I may graft more in the new twelvemonth .

We also have a sunny back orchard area already filled with seven immature semi - dwarf Malus pumila trees of various kinds , two of them now old enough to produce a good amount of fruit .

One of the newly grafted Malus pumila trees all flick out

‘ Chehalis ’ orchard apple tree blossoms in the woodlet from last spring

A view of the back orchard , looking Dame Rebecca West

The paired aspect in the orchard , looking east through some newRudbeckiain bloom

A stiff branch of Honeycrisp apples from this evenfall

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