Sure, you can walk into the grocery store and toss a bag of nectarines or apples into your shopping cart, but wouldn’t it be better if you could just walk out your back door? We found a book, Fruit ...

There are decorative house plants and then there are edible plants that you tend to in a tiny kitchen garden. But what about in between? The size of the pot you choose will factor into how large and ...

Q:I’M inquiring about the availability of dwarf persimmons. A friend has a small yard, and a dwarf tree would be the ideal size. A: There are many different types of dwarf fruit trees, but I’m not ...

• “The Backyard Orchardist – A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden,” by Stella Otto • “Growing and Caring for Dwarf Fruit Trees,” Cornell University Cooperative Extension ...

Imagine sitting outside and casually plucking a juicy, ripe apple from a tree growing on your deck. It could happen. February is usually an ideal time for planning and planting fruit trees in ...

Saturday's article on dwarf and miniature fruit trees was inspired by our own recent investigation into miniature fruit trees, that coincided with learning about a local orchard that had removed all ...

A welcome sight each spring, cherry trees provide some of the first blossoms of the season. Fragrant, single- or double-flowers cover the small tree’s leafless branches. There are two groups of cherry ...

Fruit trees are not for the lazy. They require a strict regimen of spraying for disease and pests, said Howard Siegrist, the Licking County extension educator with the Ohio State University Extension.