I put together this slideshow and handout as part of presentation for the classes I’m taking in Sustainable Urban Agriculture at Edmonds Community College. The classes have been very informative so far and I’ve learned a lot and also learned…
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Potted up my red fleshed apple grafted trees into real dirt and moved them to the greenhouse, got the peas planted, got more of the yard cleaned up today. Really, it’s kinda a never ending stream of things to do…
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Another day of grafting… went to the Seattle Tree Fruit Society event today as a set-up volunteer and then grafted 6 different varieties of red fleshed apples. I also got some grape cuttings so I have 2 Interlaken grapes rooting.…
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Just pruned my baby plum tree for the first time, rather shocking what a first pruning looks like on a young tree. We bought this Beauty Plum bare root and on sale at The Plant Farm, in Smokey Point for…
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All day potting project? Yes, yes that is what I did today. I potted up 3 of the trees I grafted the other day (the one came home potted and one stayed at school), sorted out the compost pile and…
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Today, I learned how to bench graft in my course at Edmonds Community College. I grafted 5 trees, 3 apple (2 Rubinette & one Enterprise and 2 cherries, Bing & Rainier). One of the Rubinette will be staying at school and…
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Another eventful day… Went to the Western Washington Fruit Research Society Winter Field Day and listened to lectures on grafting, red fleshed apples (yes, they are a thing and an awesome one!), picked up some rootstock and scion wood for…
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