Fruit trees in pots are a great way to add a pop of color, sweetness and aroma to your backyard — I mean, they're also just really tasty if you're looking for a healthy midday snack. There are a ...

Sure, you can walk into the grocery store and toss a bag of nectarines or apples into your shopping cart, but wouldn’t it be better if you could just walk out your back door? We found a book, Fruit ...

Growing fruit trees in containers gives you flexibility to control sunlight, size, and damaging weather. Try growing one of these fruit trees in pots.

Q:I’M inquiring about the availability of dwarf persimmons. A friend has a small yard, and a dwarf tree would be the ideal size. A: There are many different types of dwarf fruit trees, but I’m not ...

• “The Backyard Orchardist – A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden,” by Stella Otto • “Growing and Caring for Dwarf Fruit Trees,” Cornell University Cooperative Extension ...

There are not many Californians of my generation who do not remember growing avocado trees from seeds when we were kids. We simply impaled the big seeds around the middle with three evenly spaced ...

A welcome sight each spring, cherry trees provide some of the first blossoms of the season. Fragrant, single- or double-flowers cover the small tree’s leafless branches. There are two groups of cherry ...

Fruit trees are not for the lazy. They require a strict regimen of spraying for disease and pests, said Howard Siegrist, the Licking County extension educator with the Ohio State University Extension.

Saturday's article on dwarf and miniature fruit trees was inspired by our own recent investigation into miniature fruit trees, that coincided with learning about a local orchard that had removed all ...