Clay soil is notoriously difficult to garden with. But it's still possible to grow an apple or pear tree in a clay-soil yard ...

If you've always wanted to grow apple trees, March and April are great times to plant. But before you buy a tree, here are things to consider.

Most trees with long, flexible branches, such as apple, cherry, fig, peach, pear, plum and quince lend themselves nicely to ...

If you have fruit trees in your yard, you may already know that they are susceptible to certain issues, including pests.

Apple trees need pollen from a different variety to grow fruit. If there are other apple trees nearby in your neighborhood — even crabapple — one tree may be all you need to plant.

Some of these fast-growing trees produce sweet, colorful fruits, while others may have a more bitter yield that has other ...

When considering which trees to plant in your garden, one variety tends to grow at a faster rate than most, and produces lovely flowers in the springtime, too.

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 ...

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 ...

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