You can harvest luscious peaches, crisp apples and sweet plums right off your own tree. Garden designer and fruit expert Colby Eierman’s Fruit Trees In Small Spaces (Timber Press, 2012) shows how ...

Branching out to potted trees this year? Gardening experts gave us the lowdown on raising them indoors. Yes, you can grow fruit trees indoors, especially dwarf citrus varieties like Meyer lemon or key ...

Q. About 3 1/2 years ago we planted a Fuyu Persimmon tree from a local nursery near Moreno Valley. It grew rather quickly, and last year, there was a large quantity of beautiful, tasty persimmons.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

One of the oldest advanced techniques of gardening — and one of my favorites — is espaliering, which involves shaping woody plants into two-dimensional shapes. Now, in bare root season, it’s timely to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty / Yippa Many people dream of picking their own fresh fruit, but they live in areas with long, harsh winters. However, even ...

We all enjoy apples, pears, plums, oranges and other fruits that are commonly available in our grocery stores, but there are many other less familiar fruits. This topic was prompted by the upcoming ...

After fruit was thinned to 8 inches apart, this 5-year-old tree still produced 84 large apples. Many fruit trees — including semidwarf varieties — can easily grow to 15 feet and taller. Anyone who has ...

Martha Stewart grows lots of fruit trees in her lush, expansive gardens, and there's one type of tree that she even brought ...