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Featured Contributor
MM Monica Mansfield owned an
indoor garden store for 5 1/2
years, sold the business and
started a seven-acre homestead
with her husband, Owen. Monica
is passionate about gardening,
sustainable living, and holistic
health. She writes about these
topics and her homestead
adventures on her blog
thenaturelifeproject.com.
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Wiley Geren
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Kent Gruetzmacher
Philip McIntosh
Dr. Lynette Morgan
Bryan Traficante
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March/April 2019
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GRAFTING
Grafting is the act of taking a bud, shoot, or scion of a plant and inserting it into
a groove, slit, or surface opening in a stem or stalk of another plant in which it will
continue to grow symbiotically. Grafting has been practiced for thousands of years.
Grafting has many purposes, from protection against diease to the creation of new
fruit vareties. Grape varietals are often grafted onto different root stock to provide
protection from disease and in-soil threats like fungi that one species might be
adapted to, but the desired fruit crop is not.
Some grafts are within families such as apples, while some are more exciting. For
example, tomatoes can be grafted onto potato plants to create a more productive
garden plot. Grafting can only be successful if the grower manages to put the
vascular tissues of the scion and the rootstock into contact with one another.
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