Graft Apple Trees at Home: Easily Make the Cut

Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping · Feb 9, 2023 · 52m

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Steven Edholm is a California homesteader who teaches a wide variety of self-reliance skills.

He is passionate about grafting fruit trees. He's created trees that have over 100 varieties.

In this episode, he explains how to graft apple trees at home.

We talk about:

Reasons to graft apple trees

Apple trees with lots of grafts (Frankentrees!)

Cutting and storing apple scion wood

Apple rootstock

Supplies for apple tree grafting (spoiler alert…