Grafting Workshop
Workshop Report by Pauline Sleigh On Tuesday 15 June, Andrew hosted a session on grafting at his lovely garden in Canadian. Steve Burns held an extremely educational session and I would strongly encourage any who missed out to take the opportunity to attend if this was ever to be held again; I know I will! (Note: the workshop was filmed and a link to the video is after the photos!) The session started with Steve outlining a bit about his history and where his interest in grafting came from and his interest in productive gardening, permaculture and unusual edible species. He admitted that he had become a bit over enthusiastic in his grafting in previous years resulting in a grafted tree in pot collection that had become somewhat cumbersome. He suggested that apples were a great place to start for new grafters due to being readily available and reliably successful. Steve showed us some grafted examples and discussed the issue of apial dominance which in simple terms means the highe...