Skip Paul at Wishing Stone Farm
Silas Paul grafting tomatoes
Skip and Silas Paul have been grafting tomatoes for over ten years at Wishing Stone Farm in Little Compton, RI. Like other greenhouse growers who graft tomatoes, Skip started because of production problems – largely due to growing tomatoes in the same greenhouses year after year. Diseases like Corky Root Rot eventually reduced their yields and shortened the productive lifetime of the farm’s tomato plants. Wishing Stone Farm now routinely grafts tomatoes for their own use. The farm sells about 4,500 grafted tomato plants to greenhouse growers. [Learn how to graft tomatoes here.]
