I've got WWWAAAYYY too many tomato plants, but some are determinate, so they will only bear one time... and I do have friends (and deer) who will have a share in the garden, I'm sure. Lots of nice, healthy peppers in the front box (they were indoors), but the Basil in the back box that was planted out two weeks ago needs more heat! We are still only getting mid 60s in the daytime, and down to high 40s at night. Maybe we are skipping Spring AND Summer this year ????
Back in March, my friend Janice and I took a class at OSU Extension: Grafting Fruit Trees.
We grafted several apple scions varities onto semi-dwarf rootstock, took them home, planted them in buckets for their first year, and waited. For a really long time... nothing happened. Too cold and wet. Eventually the buds swelled, and now they are leafing out. It looks like all five of my grafts took, I'm pretty excited about that.
Later in the Summer, before they go into the ground in the orchard this Fall, I will have to decide which shoot will become the actual 'tree' and which will be removed so the baby trees can get hardy enough to survive "in the wild" of the orchard. When I find out more about releasing the trees into the orchard, I'll let you know how it is going.
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