Pruning is an essential garden chore for healthy trees, and you may assume that fruit and shade trees have the same pruning requirements, but they don't.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

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.

Growing fruit trees in pots is a fantastic way to enjoy fresh produce, even if you have limited space. Container gardening ...

We all enjoy apples, pears, plums, oranges and other fruits that are commonly available in our grocery stores, but there are many other less familiar fruits. This topic was prompted by the upcoming ...

Since the fig forms its fruit on shoots that start to grow in the spring, it can be radically pruned in the winter without affecting the following year’s two crops. The first crop starts to grow in ...

(CBSDFW.COM) - There are your standard fruit trees around North Texas that many people have in their yard. Peaches is likely the main one. The Santa Rosa Plum is not only an attractive tree, it ...

It’s always useful to keep in mind that when we buy a certain variety of fruit tree we are the beneficiaries of clonal propagation; that is, the fruit we harvest is coming from canopy growth (called a ...

I interrupt today’s cocktail hour to talk about…cocktails. After naming, renaming, classifying plants, and pondering the meaning of life, our friends at Botanists ‘R Us, probably needed a good stiff ...

Everyone loves summer for any number of different reasons. One very sweet reason is all the summer fruits that become available, such as plums, peaches, cherries and nectarines. Even though Southern ...