Skip to content

Orchard Notes

Orchard Fruit Growing: Methods, Research, History & Culture

  • Home
  • About
    • New Here?
  • Latest
  • Plot #79
  • Research
    • Historical Orchard Recipes
    • Glossary
    • Orchard Bibliography
  • Contact
    • Email List

Tag: grafting

How To: Top-Graft a ‘Family’ Apple Tree

Here’s how I went about creating a ‘family’ apple tree of six varieties, using the rind grafting technique.

Published April 2, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged apple, catshead, grafting, orleans reinette, rind grafting, rosemary russet, tydemans early worcester, wareham russet, worcester pearmain

How NOT to Graft a ‘Family’ Apple Tree (#EpicFail)

Feature image: a grafted family tree

The best laid plans of orchardists also gang aft a-gley, especially if you don’t think your clever ideas through properly…

Published February 13, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged apple, grafting, rootstock, scion

Amelia Simmons, on Grafting a ‘Family Tree’

Words of wisdom here on how to keep youngsters out of mischief by teaching them the art of apple tree grafting.

Published January 10, 2022
Categorised as Quotations, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged Amelia Simmons, C18th, family tree, grafting

Grafting Advice and New Cultivars from SkillCult

A shout out for Steven Edholm’s superb SkillCult blog, where he’s been offering grafting advice and talking about his apple breeding project.

Published April 26, 2021
Categorised as Linking Out, Orchard Work Tagged apple breeding, grafting, scions, SkillCult, Steven Edholm

Arnold’s Chronicle on Greffing Family Trees

Another 16th century mention for multiple-variety fruit tree grafting suggests it was quite a common practice for the time.

Published March 11, 2021
Categorised as Quotations, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged C16th, family tree, grafting, Richard Arnold

Brossard (Mascall), on Graffyng Family Trees

As this 16th century quotation shows, the concept of the multi-variety ‘family’ fruit tree is not a new one.

Published March 10, 2021
Categorised as Quotations, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged C16th, David Brossard, family tree, grafting, Leonard Mascall

Master Fitzherbert, on When to Graffe your Fruit Trees

Not sure when to graffe your peares, wardens or apples? Here’s Master F. to set you straight.

Published March 4, 2021
Categorised as Quotations Tagged C16th, grafting

Master Fitzherbert, on Equipment for Graffynge

Here’s a 16th century guide to assembling your graffynge kit, which every good housbande should keep to hand.

Published March 1, 2021
Categorised as Quotations Tagged grafting, Master Fitzherbert, top fruit

Growing a ‘Family’ Apple Tree – Episode 1

Feature image: a grafted family tree

I’ve been meaning to graft up a multi-variety apple tree for a while; here’s my first attempt.

Published February 27, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged bench grafting, dormant grafting, egremont russet, family tree, grafting, laxton's superb, wareham russet

Fruit Tree Grafting Advice From the Experts

If you’re looking for expert advice on grafting apple and pear trees, look no further.

Published February 26, 2021
Categorised as Linking Out, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged bench grafting, cleft grafting, dormant grafting, drill grafting, field grafting, grafting, rind grafting, saddle grafting, whip and tongue grafting

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 Older posts

Categories

  • Ads of Yore
  • Announcements
  • Book Notes
  • Cider
  • Community Orchards
  • Feature Articles
  • Gallery
  • Linking Out
  • Orchard Cookery
  • Orchard History
  • Orchard P&D
  • Orchard Poetry
  • Orchard Science
  • Orchard Tradition
  • Orchard Trials
  • Orchard Visits
  • Orchard Work
  • Quotations
  • Site Updates
  • Top Fruit Grafting
  • Top Fruit Harvesting
  • Top Fruit Morphology
  • Top Fruit Planting
  • Top Fruit Pruning
  • Top Fruit Research
  • Top Fruit Thinning

Twitter

Orchard Notes Follow

Orchards & orcharding methods, history, culture & cookery by @darrenturpin: orchardist, amateur pomologist, allotmenteer, trials horticulturist @RHSBridgewater.

OrchardNotes
orchardnotes Orchard Notes @orchardnotes ·
51m

More whitecurrant picking today. Plus blackcurrants, gooseberries, raspberries. I bloody love soft fruit season, I do 😁

Reply on Twitter 1540321055834783748 Retweet on Twitter 1540321055834783748 Like on Twitter 1540321055834783748 7 Twitter 1540321055834783748
Retweet on Twitter Orchard Notes Retweeted
projectorchard The Orchard Project @projectorchard ·
1h

Want to learn orcharding skills and connect with fellow tree-lovers?
Join us next Friday 1st July 11am-2pm for an Orchard Blitz in Lewisham, London!
We will be pruning, weeding, & mulching to help revive a beautiful community orchard.
Book your spot here: https://buff.ly/3HsYRLQ

Reply on Twitter 1540311793138008066 Retweet on Twitter 1540311793138008066 1 Like on Twitter 1540311793138008066 2 Twitter 1540311793138008066
Retweet on Twitter Orchard Notes Retweeted
applesandpeople ApplesandPeople @applesandpeople ·
23 Jun

As revellers congregate within sight of mystical Glastonbury Tor in Somerset for the 50th anniversary Glastonbury Festival, today's Apple Story is a misty soup of Celtic legend and medieval tales about Avalon, the mythical Isle of Apples. #glastonbury

Reply on Twitter 1539918416416497664 Retweet on Twitter 1539918416416497664 5 Like on Twitter 1539918416416497664 11 Twitter 1539918416416497664
Load More

Tags

air-pot apple apple canker apple dessert apple recipe apples Blenheim Orange blossom book review C16th C17th C18th C19th C20th cherry cider cornish aromatic crab apple family tree fig Georgiana Hill grafting herefordshire russet john downie maintenance pruning Morello orchard cookery orchard equipment orchard planning Ordsall Hall pear pear dessert pear recipe pest control Plot #79 plum pomology preserved fruit pruning quince restoration pruning thinning trained form tree planting winter pruning
  • Twitter
  • RSS
  • Email
Orchard Notes
Proudly powered by WordPress.