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

The warm weather we've experienced in Greater Columbus this past week has many a gardener itching to get outside and plant something. This past week I saw the first fruit trees available for purchase ...

Dreaming of stepping into your backyard to pick fresh, juicy fruit straight from the tree? It might seem like a project ...

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

Do you want to grow apples in your backyard? It is probably too late to plant bare root trees at this time but potted trees may be planted all during the growing year. Apples are pollinated by insects ...

These fruit trees benefit from being planted in the fall because it allows them to establish a good root system before ...

The crisp days of fall mark the perfect time to plant trees. Spring may be more popular, but autumn offers a unique chance to ...

CORVALLIS — From newly minted gardeners to avid urban farmers, everyone with a patch of land wants to grow an apple tree. Other fruits — pears, cherries, figs, plums — are desirable, too, but there’s ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho – When Jeanne Isom planted 200 apple trees at her Blackfoot, Idaho home in 1994, she never anticipated her family would own a thriving fruit farm 30 years later. Isom's Fruit Farm, a ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...