date:Aug 25, 2020
ching for answers. She looked to other countries who had given up the use of methyl bromide a decade before the United States, wondering how they were dealing with this issue.
What many of the growers worldwide were doing was grafting, she said. This horticulture technique joins parts from two plants together so they grow as a single plant, with the upper part, or scion, of one plant growing on the root system, or rootstock, of a different plant.
Grafting watermelon has been used on a commerci