{"id":2516,"date":"2012-08-23T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2012-08-23T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T07:00:46","slug":"q-and-a-grafting-pears-and-food-grade-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/08\/23\/q-and-a-grafting-pears-and-food-grade-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: grafting pears and food-grade bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grafting pears<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Have you used rootstock from Bradford pear? They are considered a pest in north Georgia. I have them coming all around my property. Two years ago I grafted an Orient pear into a three inch diameter Bradford seedling one year after it grew six feet and it grew eleven big pears. The second year it was eight feet and produced two bushels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cecil Richmond<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Resaca, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Bradford pears are not hardy in our Zone 3. We have to use Siberian Ure pears. Good tip for southern homesteaders, though. Grafting is definitely a useful homesteading skill. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food-grade bags<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I am going to do freezer corn again this year. Where I work I can get quart-size bags very cheap. Not food grade. I do not cook in the bags they are just for freezing. Do you think this may be a problem because they don&#8217;t say food bags?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kurt<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Forest Grove, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d stick with food-grade plastic. Some plastics are toxic and leach fumes into food during storage. Others just leach odors. I try to save every nickel I can, but I try to be safe too. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grafting pears Have you used rootstock from Bradford pear? They are considered a pest in north Georgia. I have them coming all around my property. Two years ago I grafted an Orient pear into a three inch diameter Bradford seedling one year after it grew six feet and it grew eleven big pears. The second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}