An abundance of varieties, each with a different texture, taste and colour, is available to plant in even the smallest garden ...

Help your tree thrive by planting it at the optimal time.

Knowing how to grow an apple tree means you enjoy success with one of the most popular fruits in the world. Apple trees are ...

The warm weather we've experienced in Greater Columbus this past week has many a gardener itching to get outside and plant something. This past week I saw the first fruit trees available for purchase ...

“All major fruit tree species tend to do better with spring planting,” Slack says. But it’s important to work around frost ...

Dreaming of stepping into your backyard to pick fresh, juicy fruit straight from the tree? It might seem like a project ...

Do you want to grow apples in your backyard? It is probably too late to plant bare root trees at this time but potted trees may be planted all during the growing year. Apples are pollinated by insects ...

Planting apple trees — such a hopeful and meaningful thing for children to do during these times. Or at any time. It is true that apple trees provide food directly to humans and wildlife. But perhaps ...

Apples and persimmons are two of the most popular fruit trees for personal gardens, but they have quite different needs, ...

When planting apple trees in your yard, it’s worth thinking beyond soil drainage and light conditions—and even the delicious fruit you’ll eventually get to eat. However, you should also consider what ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho – When Jeanne Isom planted 200 apple trees at her Blackfoot, Idaho home in 1994, she never anticipated her family would own a thriving fruit farm 30 years later. Isom's Fruit Farm, a ...