Events - Tasmania
Grafting Day Schedule for 2019 - TASMANIA
Tasmanian fruit tree grafting workshops August-September 2019
Brought to you by Heritage & Rare Fruit Network (Tasmania)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1757609621235969/
with the support of Tasmania Exotic Fruit Growers-jo
https://www.facebook.com/groups/669659709900357/
Tasmanian fruit tree grafting workshops August-September 2019
Brought to you by Heritage & Rare Fruit Network (Tasmania)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1757609621235969/
with the support of Tasmania Exotic Fruit Growers-jo
https://www.facebook.com/groups/669659709900357/
Neil Barraclough, from Victoria, brings with him 30 years of grafting workshop experience. Kathy & Russell Wicks, from Cargo, NSW, have orcharding & grafting experience. Together, with a likely couple of extras from Victoria, the group will be touring Tasmania conducting fruit tree grafting workshops & adding a few other things to the tour (grafting avocados; rootstock propagation; growing mushrooms).
We want to share our experience of grafting events as a means of sharing varieties, of helping people set up their orchards for their greatest satisfaction, & as they do, be part of a network to share & preserve the heritage gene pool.
To attend one of our grafting workshops you will need to book with the contact person listed for each workshop. You will take home a grafted rootstock with a variety or your choice, learn how to graft & learn how to multigraft your own & friends' existing fruit trees.
Learn a few tricks to give you a good chance of producing your own “instant espaliers & cordons”, eight different cherry varieties being chip budded, four each side of a rootstock to give a cordon to grow along a wall to give cherries for a couple of months. Bit an extra explanation as to how to get all the buds to grow at the workshops.
We want to share our experience of grafting events as a means of sharing varieties, of helping people set up their orchards for their greatest satisfaction, & as they do, be part of a network to share & preserve the heritage gene pool.
To attend one of our grafting workshops you will need to book with the contact person listed for each workshop. You will take home a grafted rootstock with a variety or your choice, learn how to graft & learn how to multigraft your own & friends' existing fruit trees.
Learn a few tricks to give you a good chance of producing your own “instant espaliers & cordons”, eight different cherry varieties being chip budded, four each side of a rootstock to give a cordon to grow along a wall to give cherries for a couple of months. Bit an extra explanation as to how to get all the buds to grow at the workshops.
Learn how to do bark grafts to give an “instant espalier” with eight different apples, four each side of the rootstock, to give apples for perhaps 6-8months of the year from a section of wall or fence. These are examples where we need to be able to choose from a good range of varieties & it is one of the reasons we need to grow & preserve as many of the heritage varieties we can for the future.
Be part of forming a network to share, grow & maintain heritage varieties that past generations have relied on for their self reliance so the varieties will continue to be available to generations to come. Learn how to multigraft your existing fruit trees so you can have fruit for the greater part of the year.
Know of any really good fruit trees in old orchards? Bring some scion along & have a new tree grafted for your orchard or for a friend & ensure the survival of the variety. Know of a really good roadside seedling apple or other fruit? Ten thousand apple cores are thrown out the window, a thousand grow, one hundred do really well because they are more locally adapted than the varieties we have bought that have been selected from far away. Five of the hundred have fruit we really like, these will very likely do better in your locality than ones selected from across the oceans, bring along some scion, have one grafted & learn the skills so you can help others create an orchard with a few “local treasures” in it. We are working with nature to adapt our food plants to a local or changing climate.
We expect to have apple, pear, plum, cherry, mulberry & hopefully rootstocks available at all workshops but some may be limited. People can bring seedlings in pots of avocado, citrus, white sapote etc, & though it isn’t the best time of year we will have a go. We hope to have at least one avocado seedling for demonstration at each workshop.
Here is a useful link showing grafting avocados for the home gardener: https://heritageandrarefruits.weebly.com/grafting-avocados.html
At some workshops we will either be discussing rootstock propagation or putting in a small rootstock propagation area to help make the heritage fruit preservation locally sustainable. https://heritageandrarefruits.weebly.com/rootstock-information.html
Grafting Workshop Itinerary in Tasmania:
Thursday 15 August 2019
“Setting up rootstock propagation”
Time: 10am – 3pm
Light refreshments provided, bring your lunch etc.
Host: Jo Dumergue
Address: Sans Souci, 558 Upper Scamander Road, Upper Scamander 7215
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 0401 388 860
Friday 16 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
It is intended to have a short talk about the previous days’ rootstock propagation prior to the grafting workshop. There will also be a short talk on growing edible fungi as a group activity.
Time: 10am – 3pm
Light refreshments provided, bring your lunch etc.
Host: Jo Dumergue
Address: Sans Souci, 558 Upper Scamander Road, Upper Scamander 7215
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 0401 388 860
Saturday 17 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Time: 11am – 3pm
Lebrina Memorial Hall 905 Golconda Road, Lebrina.
Host: Jess Kursawe
Email: [email protected]
Tuesday 20 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Setting up rootstock propagation at the end of the grafting workshop.
Time: 10:30am to 3:30pm
Host: Karen Butters
Address: 6 Connor Place Cambridge.
Email: [email protected]
Wednesday 21 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting & demonstration on multi grafting”
Roy has a number of fruit trees already so there will be a demo on multigrafting existing fruit trees as part of the workshop.
Time: 10am – 3pm
Bring your own lunch.
Host: Roy Dadson
Address: 272 Safety Cove Road, Port Arthur.
Email: [email protected]
Saturday 24 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
With the possibility of a demo on growing rootstocks.
Time: 10am – 3:30pm
Host: Alison Ferry
Address: Swanston Street Children’s Centre, 80 Swanston Street, New Town.
Email: [email protected]
Sunday 25 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Time: 10am-4pm
Host: Matthew Tack
Address: Our Mate’s Farm, 291 Arve Road, Geeveston.
Email: [email protected]
Monday 26 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Time: 10am-3pm
Host: Peirce & Christina
Address: ‘Pilgrim Hill’ 200 Crouch’s Hill Road, Lucaston.
Email: [email protected]
Wednesday 28 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Time: 10am-4pm
Host: Will Todd
Address: 606 Back River Road Magra in the Derwent Valley.
Email: [email protected]
SATURDAY 31 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Time: 10am- 3pm
Host: Kathryn Cerchez
Address: 404 Nook Road, NOOK
Contact Kathryn Cerchez : [email protected]
Sunday 01 September 2019
“Multigrafting existing trees, a quick talk on growing edible fungi as a
group exercise & rootstock propagation”
Time: 10am-3:30pm
Host: Nick Towle
Address: Reseed Centre, 30 King Edward Street, Penguin.
Email: [email protected]
You can join our Facebook Group, go to the events section & register,
numbers are limited.
Be part of forming a network to share, grow & maintain heritage varieties that past generations have relied on for their self reliance so the varieties will continue to be available to generations to come. Learn how to multigraft your existing fruit trees so you can have fruit for the greater part of the year.
Know of any really good fruit trees in old orchards? Bring some scion along & have a new tree grafted for your orchard or for a friend & ensure the survival of the variety. Know of a really good roadside seedling apple or other fruit? Ten thousand apple cores are thrown out the window, a thousand grow, one hundred do really well because they are more locally adapted than the varieties we have bought that have been selected from far away. Five of the hundred have fruit we really like, these will very likely do better in your locality than ones selected from across the oceans, bring along some scion, have one grafted & learn the skills so you can help others create an orchard with a few “local treasures” in it. We are working with nature to adapt our food plants to a local or changing climate.
We expect to have apple, pear, plum, cherry, mulberry & hopefully rootstocks available at all workshops but some may be limited. People can bring seedlings in pots of avocado, citrus, white sapote etc, & though it isn’t the best time of year we will have a go. We hope to have at least one avocado seedling for demonstration at each workshop.
Here is a useful link showing grafting avocados for the home gardener: https://heritageandrarefruits.weebly.com/grafting-avocados.html
At some workshops we will either be discussing rootstock propagation or putting in a small rootstock propagation area to help make the heritage fruit preservation locally sustainable. https://heritageandrarefruits.weebly.com/rootstock-information.html
Grafting Workshop Itinerary in Tasmania:
Thursday 15 August 2019
“Setting up rootstock propagation”
Time: 10am – 3pm
Light refreshments provided, bring your lunch etc.
Host: Jo Dumergue
Address: Sans Souci, 558 Upper Scamander Road, Upper Scamander 7215
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 0401 388 860
Friday 16 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
It is intended to have a short talk about the previous days’ rootstock propagation prior to the grafting workshop. There will also be a short talk on growing edible fungi as a group activity.
Time: 10am – 3pm
Light refreshments provided, bring your lunch etc.
Host: Jo Dumergue
Address: Sans Souci, 558 Upper Scamander Road, Upper Scamander 7215
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 0401 388 860
Saturday 17 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Time: 11am – 3pm
Lebrina Memorial Hall 905 Golconda Road, Lebrina.
Host: Jess Kursawe
Email: [email protected]
Tuesday 20 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Setting up rootstock propagation at the end of the grafting workshop.
Time: 10:30am to 3:30pm
Host: Karen Butters
Address: 6 Connor Place Cambridge.
Email: [email protected]
Wednesday 21 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting & demonstration on multi grafting”
Roy has a number of fruit trees already so there will be a demo on multigrafting existing fruit trees as part of the workshop.
Time: 10am – 3pm
Bring your own lunch.
Host: Roy Dadson
Address: 272 Safety Cove Road, Port Arthur.
Email: [email protected]
Saturday 24 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
With the possibility of a demo on growing rootstocks.
Time: 10am – 3:30pm
Host: Alison Ferry
Address: Swanston Street Children’s Centre, 80 Swanston Street, New Town.
Email: [email protected]
Sunday 25 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Time: 10am-4pm
Host: Matthew Tack
Address: Our Mate’s Farm, 291 Arve Road, Geeveston.
Email: [email protected]
Monday 26 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Time: 10am-3pm
Host: Peirce & Christina
Address: ‘Pilgrim Hill’ 200 Crouch’s Hill Road, Lucaston.
Email: [email protected]
Wednesday 28 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Time: 10am-4pm
Host: Will Todd
Address: 606 Back River Road Magra in the Derwent Valley.
Email: [email protected]
SATURDAY 31 August 2019
“Fruit tree grafting workshop”
Time: 10am- 3pm
Host: Kathryn Cerchez
Address: 404 Nook Road, NOOK
Contact Kathryn Cerchez : [email protected]
Sunday 01 September 2019
“Multigrafting existing trees, a quick talk on growing edible fungi as a
group exercise & rootstock propagation”
Time: 10am-3:30pm
Host: Nick Towle
Address: Reseed Centre, 30 King Edward Street, Penguin.
Email: [email protected]
You can join our Facebook Group, go to the events section & register,
numbers are limited.