Dreaming of harvesting peaches, plums, apples or figs from your own backyard? Growing delicious homegrown fruit starts with ...

Get your garden ready for spring with this essential pruning checklist ...

Home gardeners and orchard enthusiasts are invited to a hands-on Fruit Tree Pruning and Training Workshop on March ...

We recently moved into a home with two apple trees. I was told that they need to be pruned every year. Could you please give ...

Grown indoors or out, this plant offers bright, citrusy fragrance to your garden and food.

Fig trees are prolific growers and can mature at 10 to 30 feet tall and wide. Pruning controls their size so they grow more bushlike than treelike. Native to Asia and the Mediterranean, they thrive in ...

It may seem rather ludicrous that a brand-new apple varietal was named after the Grammy-winning artist behind “What’s Your Fantasy,” but millennials are a unique cohort. “I came from a family of ...

Growing up in Swain County, North Carolina, Nathan Dee Greene ate a lot of apples. The family had several trees of their own, but every fall, they bought bushels from the nearby orchard on Laurel ...

Fruit trees are some of the best plants that you can grow in your yard. They're beautiful, offer some much-needed shade in summer, and they feed you. Even beginning gardeners can grow fruit trees in ...

Move over, Red Delicious. Gala, Honeycrisp and Fuji apples have become some of the most popular varieties in the U.S. Honeycrisp in particular have achieved apple stardom in produce aisles across the ...