Grafting is a great gardening technique that allows you to grow plants successfully, even if they’re not ideally suited to your home environment.

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Hannah demonstrates a method for grafting tomatoes onto native kangaroo apple to get improved growth in poor soils; it’s worked well for her in the past, with bumper crops.

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Kangaroo Apple (Solanum laciniatum)
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum cv.)

This segment is from Gardening Australia Season 35, Episode 35 titled “Classic French design and grevilleas”.

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9 Comments

  1. Would be good to see results. Pretty cool idea! I reckon they might struggle a bit without protecting them from dessication.

  2. I've got a kangaroo apple growing in a pot which some fruit bat neighbours dropped off 😂 Only 1 fruit so far 🤔 Tomatoes grew ok on their own.

  3. Very interesting! If these grafts take, I'd love to see the end product, particularly the mature tomato vines with ripe tomatoes.

  4. Question about grafting. Anyone may answer. 🙂 Lets say i want to grow grapes. They require years to bear fruit. Then i wonder. Is it the root stock or the cuttings that decide the “age”? Can i graft a first season grape cutting onto a five season root stock and expect fruiting? Do both need to reach the proper age or is it the cutting that is important? 😆 wierd question maby.. 😅

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