Who doesn't want an apple orchard outside their door, showering the lawn with spring flowers and autumn fruit? If you love to fill your outside space with plants that provide food and beauty, you've ...

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 ...

CORVALLIS — From newly minted gardeners to avid urban farmers, everyone with a patch of land wants to grow an apple tree. Other fruits — pears, cherries, figs, plums — are desirable, too, but there’s ...

Broadly speaking, apples grow on trees in two basic configurations, spur bearing and tip bearing. The most common type we see nowadays are spur-bearing trees. Spurs are modified shoots usually less ...

Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. CATHY WURZER: Well, if you've ever wanted to grow an apple tree in your yard, there is a new tree on the market just ...

Apple, pears and plums are the lowest maintenance fruit trees once established. Besides annual pruning, they're easy to care ...

Knowing it can take an apple tree anywhere from two to 10 years to bear fruit, the owners of Tuttle Orchards started years ...

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 ...