Friday, May 28, 2010

We're on the final grafting stretch.

We are getting closer and closer to having all our grafting done for the field season. The on-farm eggplant and watermelon field trials will go in on June 7 and 8. The Mount Vernon field trials will go in the following week *fingers crossed*. Today we had a visit from reporters for a news article.

Patti gave a great demonstration of watermelon and tomato grafting techniques, and the reporters got to try their hand at grafting tomatoes.



Patti, grafting whiz, splice grafting Cherokee Purple tomatoes.



Patti holding Crisp'N Sweet watermelon grafts, me holding Cherokee Purple tomato grafts with healing chamber in the background.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

My biophysics instructors gave me the "Most likely to self-combust from stress" award. Good thing the class is almost over.