Back to Eden Gardening and Hugelkulture and other non-conventional garden methods

[1cock2hens]

its not something you must do it is just something that can be advantageous. some fruit trees will have amazing root systems and not so amazing fruits and some might have amazing fruits and not so awesome roots so you graft the one with great fruits but not so great roots to the good roots and you have an all around good fruit tree.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Grafting can also allow for a little more hardiness against disease and other adverse conditions.

Another main reason for grating it to dwarf fruit trees to make harvesting easier. It's a lot easier to pick apples 10 feet off the ground as opposed to 20 or even 30 feet

I've only seen this in backyard fruit trees, but some people graft many different scions to the same rootstock. That way one tree can produce several different varieties of fruit. Pretty clever, I thought...

 

[CapricornFarm]

Grafting can also allow for a little more hardiness against disease and other adverse conditions.

Another main reason for grating it to dwarf fruit trees to make harvesting easier. It's a lot easier to pick apples 10 feet off the ground as opposed to 20 or even 30 feet

I've only seen this in backyard fruit trees, but some people graft many different scions to the same rootstock. That way one tree can produce several different varieties of fruit. Pretty clever, I thought...

We saw one for sale in a catalogue somewhere with 5 different fruits on it!

 

[pennyJo1960]

We saw one for sale in a catalogue somewhere with 5 different fruits on it!

Do you recall what catalog ? curious

 

[1cock2hens]

they are called fruit cocktail(salad) trees. Burgess has one with 6 fruits on one tree
https://www.eburgess.com/store/5556-dwarf-fruit-cocktail-tree

 

[pennyJo1960]

hhmmm cannot be shipped to Washington state they must have a reason does seem a bit odd

 

[lazy gardener]

I would not go out of my way to spend the money on one of those. From the folks I've talked to, they are more of a novelty, and the various grafts are prone to dying off. I would stick with a single cultivar, and perhaps graft one or two others onto it.

 

[pennyJo1960]

the site clearly stated there is no sale of them to Washington State so let's me out and was not that taken with them

 

[igorsMistress]

its not something you must do it is just something that can be advantageous. some fruit trees will have amazing root systems and not so amazing fruits and some might have amazing fruits and not so awesome roots so you graft the one with great fruits but not so great roots to the good roots and you have an all around good fruit tree.

Excellent explanation!

 

[pennyJo1960]

picked up Raspberry x 4 today have one area of the garden only for berries
also managed to fine planted onion sets sprouted and Brussels sprouts..
now if we can get more than a half hour of it not raining at least put rubber boots away
for the year