Growing your own fruit trees can be extremely rewarding, but it won't like turn out the way you hope when it comes to apple ...

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

Growing apples and pears in your backyard is not as simple as just digging hole, plopping in a tree and waiting for the bounty. Contra Costa Master Gardener Darlene DeRosa says you need to do research ...

Suppose you start your own apple orchard on the cheap. You harvest the seeds from a single apple that you love and plant them in the ground. Next spring, six apple tree seedlings come up — success! A ...

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

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

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

TWO DESIRES—to collect apples and plant a fruit tree—coincide in fall. You sample apple varieties at the same time that catalogs and nurseries take orders for ...

This article is by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling for the Valley News. [S]OUTH ROYALTON — Though actively managed apple orchards are producing a fair amount of fruit, a string of unfortunate weather events has ...

The apple trees were delivered just after I’d left for the weekend. From afar, I fretted over them like a mother hen. Would they get too hot? Would their roots dry out? Would the promise of heavy ...

Have you heard of Egyptian apple pie? It’s the type mummy used to make. Apples are the most common homegrown fruit in Northern regions. Most apple tree owners know they’re supposed to prune their ...

Many apple varieties common in the United States a century ago can no longer be found in today's orchards and nurseries. But some historic apple trees still survive in abandoned farmsteads and ...