Grafting, with Ken Clark

Ken Clark has been gardening all his life with the main focus on food production. He grew up on a farm and back then you relied on your own garden to get your dinner on the table.

When Ken was 12 his parents divorced and he had to take over all the major digging in the garden and his mum did the planting.

He now lives on Waiheke on a 850sqm section and produces food in abundance to feed himself and his wife. The beauty of Kens food garden is that he has a wide variety of different fruit and vegetables for the entire year.

Ken is a master grafter and has managed to graft seven different sorts of plums onto one tree. Grafting on existing trees is one way to get a wide variety in your garden if you don’t live in an orchard. This is a great way for people in the city to get all different kinds of fruit on your trees.

In this workshop you will learn:
• The different ways of grafting.
• What you can graft together, success and failure stories.
• What tools you need to get started.

Duration: 1-1.30 hours

Tutor: Ken Clark, from Waiheke
Location: Mt Eden Village
Contribution: $20.00

Please RSVP to: Judith Holtebrinck, E: mountedenvillagepeople@gmail.com

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