Pear trees require fertilizer when they are young and when the soil lacks essential nutrients. For young trees, a balanced ...

If you enjoy the savory taste of olives, then you should consider saving the pit so you can grow your very own tree. Native to the Mediterranean region, the evergreen olive tree is a beautiful ...

Why buy fruit trees and shrubs from a nursery when you can propagate them yourself easily and for free? Learn which fruiting plants grow well from cuttings.

Watering fruit trees correctly helps them grow strong roots, produce better fruit, and survive changing seasons. As temperatures drop and leaves fall, gradually reduce watering and stop once the ...

Rooting tip cuttings from parent plants is a way to produce new plants that are copies of the parent. It's fairly easy to do ...

Learn how to know when to pick apples and enjoy perfectly flavored fruit ready for eating, cooking or making into cider.

If you’ve ever been curious about growing figs in your backyard, preserving the harvest, or even learning how to start your own fig tree from a cutting, then you’ll want ...

Overheard in the Orchard” is the result of a serendipitous collaboration between an author orchardist and a photographer. Linda Hoffman, owner of Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, published her memoir in ...

By some estimates, Altadena lost more than half of its tree canopy in the wake of the Eaton Fire. One young Altadenan wants us to share our stories about them.