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 ...

You can get several varieties of fruit on a single tree with grafting. Here’s what to know. While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this ...

Fruit trees have become very expensive to buy. Most are well north of $20 each. Some are $25 or more, but you can build your own for about $5 each. Building your own fruit trees is easy. Scion wood, ...

Grafting new scion wood onto an existing tree is called reworking and provides a strong, established root base for the new growth. This technique was used extensively in kiwifruit orchards to quickly ...

Late winter is the perfect time to start getting your fruiting trees and shrubs ready for spring. Now is a good time for pruning and planting. And it is a great time to graft! Grafting is a method of ...

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...

Do all roses need to be winterized? Thankfully no, but a few types of roses may require some protection to make it through winter.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. JERRY COLEBY-WILLIAMS: Earlier this year, I visited the beautiful garden belonging to Penny McKinlay - ...