Apple trees aren’t easy to grow because they need consistent care, including precisely timed spraying and pruning, to ...

It's much easier to amend and improve the soil before you plant than try to remedy the situation after your fruit trees start ...

Before planting clear the area of all grass and weeds. Add 4 to 5 shovelfuls of organic matter like peat moss or manure to ...

If you're pressed for space, a micro orchard will allow you to grow many fruits in place of one or two trees, and you'll be ...

But realistically, there is more to the correct selection of trees than being able to reach that last piece of fruit from the ...

That scar is an artifact of a process called grafting, or fusing two separate pieces of wood into a new tree. From citrus to ...

This species is Suregada multiflora, sometimes known as the False Lime Tree due to the appearance of its unripe fruit. These ...

If you're growing fruit trees, then harvesting the (literal) fruits of your labor is the most exciting part. To speed that ...

Wondering why your fruit trees are growing so slowly? Here's a little-known tip that can help accelerate their growth and ...

If you’re thinking of planting for pollinators this spring, I will be teaching a one-hour class at the Columbus Public ...

Instead, a young branch from a fully grown fruit tree (a scion) is grafted to the young trunk of a completely unrelated tree (root stock) known to be particularly disease-resistant or weather ...

Onalaska High School natural resources students had an opportunity Wednesday to learn a practice utilized by fruit growers for thousands of years: tree grafting. "We're basically making clones," said ...