Saturday, June 4, 2011

Tomato Grafting

I've been trying to grow heirloom tomatoes for a number of years now with not much success. Apparently our soil is diseased, so the plants produce about three tomatoes at best. A lot of them die before they ever produce any fruit. My husband came across an article about grafting heirloom tomato tops onto disease resistant rootstock. It's been a lot of work, but I now have some healed plants and more on the way. It will still be a couple of weeks before I can plant them in the ground. Here is a link to a terrific video on how to graft tomatoes the tube method. http://cals.arizona.edu/grafting/content/tube-method-tomato-video

The next several posts are photos of the process.


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