You can harvest luscious peaches, crisp apples and sweet plums right off your own tree. Garden designer and fruit expert Colby Eierman’s Fruit Trees In Small Spaces (Timber Press, 2012) shows how ...

Branching out to potted trees this year? Gardening experts gave us the lowdown on raising them indoors. Yes, you can grow fruit trees indoors, especially dwarf citrus varieties like Meyer lemon or key ...

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 ...

After fruit was thinned to 8 inches apart, this 5-year-old tree still produced 84 large apples. Many fruit trees — including semidwarf varieties — can easily grow to 15 feet and taller. Anyone who has ...

Within a few years of lovingly planting fruit trees, most folks find themselves with scraggly overgrown bushes, rather than the Garden of Eden they had envisioned. The key to keeping fruit trees ...

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 ...

Pruning your fruit trees is an important step to making sure they stay healthy and produce good fruit, but pruning too early ...

The idea of picking a ripe apple or juicy peach off of a tree in your own backyard may sound like an out-of-reach dream, but with the right care and proper research, you can turn this fantasy into a ...

Fruit trees can yield abundance for your home, if propagated correctly. Instead of using seeds, consider these four methods ...

It can be tough to find a fruiting tree that is frost tolerant. The good news is that one does exist. It grows quickly and it ...