Dab hand with a blade

Mel's dad Mick has been up giving us a hand grafting the Casimiroa. We go through the orchard selecting scions (the bit being grafted) from the best producing trees and graft them onto root stock grown from seed. It's fun work with the radio in the background, chatting about this and that. The grafted plants are protected from drying out with grafting tape and a plastic bag (recycled) to keep the humidity up until buds form.