Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question is how to propagate an apple tree from ...

Among all fruit trees, the apple tree likely reigns supreme. From legendary tales of Johnny Appleseed spreading seeds across the land to the classic saying about keeping the doctor away, and even its ...

With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question we receive is how to propagate an apple ...

Spring has sprung and that’s good news for gardeners who’ve been eager to dig into the soil once again. If you’re one of the few who’s added fruit trees to your crop list, there’s one practice you may ...

March arrived this past week with typical March-like weather: Snow, rain, sleet, some sunshine and breezy. Days are longer and many people are anxious to get outside and do something horticulturally!

If you have trouble deciding what kind of apples to buy when you visit the grocery store or the orchard, imagine what it’s like choosing which type of apples to grow. That is the dilemma facing Steve ...

What’s the deal with weird crab apple tree in the park near Rio Vista Circle, across the bridge from the county fairgrounds? Half of the tree is filled with small crab apples and half has much larger ...

EMPIRE, MICH. -- Elderly apple trees are scattered throughout Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, from the mainland to the Manitou Islands, dropping their fruit every fall like little notes from ...

Apples taste different at various points during ripening, and people who grow their own can decide when to harvest them depending on the flavor they prefer. Take the thin-skinned 'Golden Supreme,' an ...

Try growing honeycrisp, Chehalis, Granny Smith, and more apple tree varieties that thrive in Pacific Northwestern climates It’s hard to think of fruit trees in the Pacific Northwest without thinking ...