If you want to plant a fruit tree in your backyard to grow your own apples or pears, consider whether you'll need more than one for cross pollination.

My hero is Larry Enter. Enter is a Master Gardener from Watertown who grows perfect apples on his 155 trees. Apples from my two trees turn out…let’s just say “less than perfect.” Enter ...

Whether you want to start a new fig tree to continue the lineage of a beloved heirloom specimen or share cuttings with fellow ...

The first step to quickly transforming your yard into an orchard is selecting trees that fruit between one and five years.

I sat down with Russell Norton a horticulture and agriculture educator with the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and started by asking him: why do we prune?

Why not start propagating in winter and get more plants for free? It can be done with hardwood cuttings from these popular ...

Farmers from India and Bangladesh clashed at the Malda border over allegations of theft and trespassing on Saturday, escalating into a violent confrontation. The BSF and BGB intervened to restore ...

Loved the cherries from your grandma's orchard but can't get their seeds or root cuttings to establish ... budding comes into the picture when fruit trees, especially apples, pears, and peaches, are ...

Identifying a dominant leader and cutting ... between trees that grow in a forest and trees that grow in your yard. They may be the exact same species, but the tree growing in the wild among ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: Grapevines and fruit trees. Now is the time to clonally propagate grapevines, fig and pomegranate trees from cuttings. In a full to partial sun location ...