Growing heirloom apple trees is becoming increasingly popular among home gardeners. With their hardy parentage, heirlooms are resilient and fairly easy to grow. There are dwarf and semi-dwarf ...

A guide to when and how to prune fan-trained fruit trees for healthy trees and bumper crops, including tips for training trees and pruning established trees.

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

Fruit trees require some care and upkeep to ensure they produce, but only two types can be pruned in the winter.

Martin specifically recommends the dwarf fig Ficus carica ‘Fignomenal’ as her top pick for growing in pots. This pint-sized ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Apple growers want to get the most out of their high-value cultivars, and a Purdue University study shows they might want to focus on the types of apples they plant near those ...

Green-thumbed shoppers keen to start growing their own fruit can't go wrong with a traditional apple tree, which is set to yield masses of sweet and crisp fruit as early as its first growing season.

If you long to diversify your land by planting an apple tree, you will find that most apple varieties require cross-pollination by honeybees in order to bear fruit. This requires planting at least two ...

Q: This year I finally gave in and had my lawn sprayed for weeds. I’ve had a Fireside apple tree for a decade or so, and this year, for the first time, I found small apples all over the ground around ...

Q. Last year I had about a dozen apples on our tree. This spring it flowered so profusely it looked like a snowball and now it has so many apples we had problems with limbs breaking. It's had more ...