Thanks for sharing these positive way of life.

I cut down a plastic cat litter bottle and have planted some seed-tape carrots. So far so good – we have young carrot plants!

1. The grafting method I’ve documented in my blog and on Youtube is (in my opinion) the easiest to learn and master on your own. However, if you want to create a new tree using a scion from the bramley and root stock of a different variety, you should either learn to do a nursery graft, or take a handful of scions to a nursery and have them do the grafts for you. I explained in a post titled How to Make a Fruit Tree for a Small Kitchen Garden how a nursery assembles trees out of desirable fruiting stock and hearty root stock… which leads me to the second thought:

2. Find a local grower that can graft your scions onto “dwarfing” root stock. Dwarfing stock comes from apple trees whose habit is compact–even very small. Your bramley scions may want to grow into giants, but if their root stock doesn’t feed them enough, they’ll grow smaller much the way bonsai trees remain small (with bonsai, you trim the roots to limit their ability to support a large tree). Generally, large habit trees on dwarfing root stock result in small-to-medium-sized trees, but the fruits tend to be full-sized for whatever the fruiting stock normally produces.

3. In case you’ve any doubts about harvesting scions, make sure you cut branches while the tree is dormant–that’s likely to be well into March. If you take about the last 12 inches of the youngest branches, there will be adequate stock for a professional to create the nursery grafts for you. I encourage you to locate a nursery to do the grafting for you BEFORE you harvest scions. Of course, if you’ll be attempting your own grafts, get started as soon as you have the rooted dwarfing stock on hand.

4. Finally: you can graft your bramley onto any other apple tree. I’ve had greatest success when I graft spur-fruiting varieties onto other spur-fruiting varieties. When I graft spur-fruiting varieties onto tip-fruiting varieties, fewer grafts succeed. I haven’t yet grafted tip-fruiting varieties onto spur-fruiting trees.

I wish you good luck. Now many years since I started grafting, I maintain that there has been no gardening project nearly as satisfying as coaxing red apple production from my green apple tree.

And I have never used a single chemical anything (organic or otherwise) to grow . I am surrounded by neighbors that tell me I have to spray this and spray that. Funny, I’m the ONLY one that doesn’t have problems in my garden. Coincidence?