Planting fruit trees in November is the best time to do so, as the ground conditions are ideal, as the soil is still holding ...

Personally, I like to deal with local nurseries. It helps local business, plus you get to see what you’re buying and have a place to go back to in case you run into trouble. Mail-order plants are ...

Poor pollination, pests, or lack of sunlight can keep fruit from developing fully, so create a bee-friendly, sunny ...

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, ...

Q. I have many tropical fruit trees that are surrounded by grass and close to competing trees. The fruit trees include avocado, Barbados cherry, carambola, lime, lemon, fig, banana and passion fruit.

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Barron has seen a lot more customers come in to buy fruit trees in the past year. Barron, owner of Blooming House Nursery in Newberry, attributes the increased demand to a landscaping trend ...