Thinking about planting a fruit tree in your backyard? Fruit trees take a while to get established, so make sure you choose a ...

For March birthdays, the birth month fruit tree is plum. As spring starts to arrive, plum trees become adorned with dainty ...

We typically think of spring as prime planting season, but when it comes to deciduous fruit trees, it pays to get an earlier start. Starting in mid-winter, mail order nurseries start shipping “bare ...

If you’re growing strawberries in rows in the ground or in a raised bed, space your plants 12 inches apart. For smaller ...

As fall settles in and temperatures start to drop, safeguarding fruit trees from frost becomes an essential responsibility for home gardeners and orchardists. Frost can significantly harm budding ...

You don't need to have an orchard to enjoy home-grown fruit. We show you how to get started. The most commonly planted fruit trees are apple trees but you don't always have to follow convention. Pear, ...

It’s amazing what you can do with a third of an acre of land. Take Alex Silber, for example. On a piece of ground this size, he is growing 52 exotic fruit trees, shrubs, and vines, 9 exotic herbs and ...

A Mackay couple has unveiled plans to turn a tropical oasis into a new family run cafe serving organic “clean food”.

LOUISIANA, Mo. -- In 1816, a young pioneer from Kentucky, James Hart Stark, homesteaded on the shore of the Mississippi River at the site of what is now Louisiana, Missouri. Stark had brought along a ...

Removing this layer restricts the tree from moving water up from the roots or nutrients back down, a process known as ...