The widely used farm practice of grafting watermelon and other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks results in larger amounts of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, scientists are ...

Recently interest in grafted vegetables has skyrocketed making us wonder if it’s expected to be the hottest gardening trend this year. Recently interest in grafted vegetables has skyrocketed making us ...

Q: The idea of grafted tomatoes fascinates me, but I have never had success starting tomatoes from seed. Do you know if rootstock plants are available so I can graft plants onto plants? A: I don't ...

Some home gardeners have reported double or triple yields Grafting requires special growing conditions so it can be pricey With grafting%2C you get yield%2C taste and disease resistance Tomatoes, the ...

The grafting of one plant onto another is as old as the discovery of agriculture itself (or nearly so); but what has remained mysterious was how the resultant mélange of plant species functioned as a ...

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 ...

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Agricultural grafting dates back nearly 3,000 years. By trial and error, people from ancient China to ancient Greece realized that joining a cut branch from one plant onto the stalk of another could ...

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 ...

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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, ...