Workshop on How To Graft Fruit Trees
Forget the tale of Johnny Appleseed: The modern and more reliable way to make new fruit trees is through grafting. Photo courtesy Kent Memorial Library

Workshop on How To Graft Fruit Trees

Kent Memorial Library in Kent, Conn., once again hosts Justin Potter for a demonstration of “gentle top grafting” of fruit trees: adding scionwood of one variety onto a well-established tree of another variety, but without the major surgery involved with standard top grafting.

Potter has added more than 100 varieties onto three apple trees since 2018. Participants in the workshop will be able to see grafts of different ages, where on the tree they worked well  and where they didn’t) and learn some things that Potter had to learn the hard way.

This program is in Kent but not at the library, and will be held outdoors.

It will be held on Tuesday, April 12, at 10 a.m. The rain date will be Tuesday, April 19.

To register, go to the library website at www.kentmemoriallibrary.org/gentle-top-grafting-with-justin-potter.

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