If you're growing fruit trees, then harvesting the (literal) fruits of your labor is the most exciting part. To speed that ...

Artist Sam Van Aken fuses heirloom trees through a horticultural process known as grafting. He then plants them around the ...

The fact that apples grown from seedling trees are extremely tart and basically inedible — as opposed to cloned or grafted ...

If left to their own devices, most apple trees grow into large, globe-shaped trees, with the best fruit forming on the tree’s ...

Depending on the size and variety of the pear tree, expect it to bear fruit between three to seven years of age. “You can ...

It’s easiest to accomplish this while trees are young and have yet to bear fruit. The goal, in general ... Prune shoots that ...

Whether you have one or several, or plan to plant your first fruit tree, it’s time to give them the attention needed to keep them healthy and bearing ... if your apple, pear or plum tree has ...

Increasing daylength and warmer days tells us spring is not far off. While certainly too early for any outdoor planting or soil work, we have advanced ...

The 'Growing Together' Podcast Pruning also levels out yearly fruit crops, reducing the tendency of some apple types to have boom-or-bust apple harvest cycles, where trees bear heavily one year ...