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

Some cherry varieties will be ready for harvesting as early as May, so planting these trees in the fall can set you up for a future filled with pies, tarts, and cobblers. "Much like the apple, cherry ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While spring is generally considered the ideal planting time for fruit trees, if you didn't get around to it then, you'll get another chance this fall. Planting fruit trees in the fall is particularly ...

Apple rootstocks have long been recognised as a crucial factor in determining orchard productivity, tree vigour, and overall fruit quality. Recent advances in agronomic research have refined our ...

Did you know that almost all fruit trees are grafted? So are most nursery trees, for that matter. Grafting is a method of joining two different varieties of tree, to get the best qualities of both in ...

A tradition many people look forward to in autumn is an outing to the apple orchard. Pick-your-own apples, hay wagons, corn mazes and apple cider along with soaking up the ...