Fruit trees create delicious, healthy and beautiful edible landscapes. They’re also wonderful for wildlife, feeding bees with early-season pollen, giving shelter to nesting birds and generally ...

The problem could have been the lack of a second plum tree planted nearby. Though some plum trees are considered self-fertile, many varieties require a second tree to spur the process. To make sure ...

Q: I am planning a permaculture garden on my half-acre lot. I know it’s best to plant fruit trees first. Which fruit trees fare best in this region? I would love apple, peach, plum, cherry and ...

The stone fruit orchard was not only a grove a trees, but a living history of man’s breeding of fruit. Many unique varieties of stone fruit – such as heirloom peaches, plums, cherries ...

Our fall season has finally arrived, with the ebb and flow of ambient temperature typical of Central Texas to the Upper Gulf ...

Plum trees are the most tolerant of all stone fruits regarding heavy soils and waterlogging, and they tolerate drought better than peach trees do. It is important to choose suitable varieties ...

Pear, plum, fig and medlar trees can also produce good results. Different varieties produce their fruit at different times of year. The fruit of early ripening trees tends not to keep well whereas ...

The British plum season starts in late July with the Opal variety and finishes in mid-to late-September with the Marjorie Seedling. Each variety has a 2-3 week season. British plums develop an ...

Q. Can you tell me what could have made lumps on the trunk of a tree my wife and I found in the Smokies? The lumps range from ...

Peaches and plums in Nikiski ... taking advantage of technology like high tunnels to nurture varieties that a few decades ago ...

Especially the plums here are known for their juicy and sweet-tart flavour and exotic varieties that are often exported,” ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! This week I want to talk about Tree-of-Heaven (Ailanthus altissima), an invasive ...