The warm weather we've experienced in Greater Columbus this past week has many a gardener itching to get outside and plant something. This past week I saw the first fruit trees available for purchase ...

Most gardeners wait until spring to plant fruit trees, but these varieties actually thrive when planted now and reward you with fruit much sooner.

A good rule of thumb is to get potted fruit trees in the ground at least 4 to 6 weeks before your fall frost date. In a mild winter climate where the ground does not freeze, dormant bare-root trees ...

Do you want to grow apples in your backyard? It is probably too late to plant bare root trees at this time but potted trees may be planted all during the growing year. Apples are pollinated by insects ...

These plants included everything from tomatoes in the garden to field corn, dahlias and spreading petunias, to several types ...

When planting apple trees in your yard, it’s worth thinking beyond soil drainage and light conditions—and even the delicious fruit you’ll eventually get to eat. However, you should also consider what ...

Apple orchards have changed. The large stout trees with thick gnarling branches of a few decades ago are now flimsy bushes ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho – When Jeanne Isom planted 200 apple trees at her Blackfoot, Idaho home in 1994, she never anticipated her family would own a thriving fruit farm 30 years later. Isom's Fruit Farm, a ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...

Do not plant black walnuts, eastern red cedars, junipers, and hawthorns near apple trees. Avoid planting tomatoes, potatoes, ...