Taming Wild Apples and Wild Berries

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Wild apples may be neglected orchard cultivars or descendants of domestic crab-apple stock, such as this winter-dormant sapling
Wild apples may be neglected orchard cultivars or descendants of domestic crab-apple stock, such as this winter-dormant sapling
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"Tamed" blackberries make for easy backyard pickings.
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Intensely flavored
Intensely flavored "field" strawberries can be readily transplanted. 
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Wild raspberries are so delicious that foragers will be tempted to transplant entire canes in hopes of a greater fruit yield. The plant, however, requires judicious pruning.
Wild raspberries are so delicious that foragers will be tempted to transplant entire canes in hopes of a greater fruit yield. The plant, however, requires judicious pruning.

With rural land being gobbled up at a rapid rate, it’s
increasingly difficult to forage many once-common wild
delicacies. However, we’ve found that grafting a few scions
from an old roadside apple tree to commercial rootstocks

  • Published on Mar 1, 1981
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