Fruit Tree Care

  1. How to Grow an Apple Tree

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    Growing apple trees can be a fun and rewarding experience for the home gardener. Growing apple trees is a relatively easy process, and yields delicious fruit that can be enjoyed by everybody. There are, however, many factors to consider before attempting

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  2. Adapt Your Fruit Tree to Your Home Garden

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    The desire to grow fruit right in your own backyard has never been more popular than today! From food sustainability and accessibility reasons to organic lifestyle needs, and from expanding your fruit variety access to micro-homesteading trends, the ability

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  3. Top 5 Best Winter Apples for Storing!

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    It’s Apple season! But many Apples with thin skin won’t stick around for long and you’ll be rushing to use up your harvest. So you need good, old-fashioned storing Apples! Plus, once those early and mid-season Apples are done, you will still want a tre

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  4. Top 5 Best Apples for Baking!

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    It’s Apple season! One of the most highly anticipated treats for a gardener is using their ripe fruit in their baked goods and showing off around the dessert table!

    Want to impress this coming holiday baking season? You need an Apple that holds i

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  5. What's the Deal With Fig Trees? (And Which You Should Grow?)

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    Do you love Figs? Forget about paying high prices at the grocery store, especially when it's so easy to grow your own tree!

    Fig leaves are deeply lobed with three or five lobes, which stand in contrast against the tree’s smooth silvery bark. T

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  6. Spring & Fall's Best Blooming Tree: Autumn Blooming Cherry!

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    The gorgeous Flowering Cherry tree is a spring-flowering standard that provides scent, beauty, and fall color and the versatile Autumn Blooming Cherry tree

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  7. The Best Fruit Trees for Hot Climates!

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    Growing fruit trees at home opens up a whole new world of possibilities for food sustainability and expanding fresh food access right in

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  8. How Do You Select and Plant a Fruit Tree?

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    Wherever you live, the basic rules for selecting and planting a fruit trees are similar. First and foremost is selecting the right variety for where you live. Many varieties of fruit are widely adaptable like the Santa Rosa Plum. But the question is:

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  9. Pie, Tart, Sour or Sweet Cherry? What’s the difference?

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    It’s the age-old question, what’s the difference between all these cherry tree varieties? Ok, so maybe it’s not considered an age-old question, but it’s certainly one many ask and for good reason.

    Cherry trees are beloved across the world. Partly

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  10. The Methley Plum, One of Nature's Best

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    In the world of Plums, there are hundreds if not thousands of varieties worldwide that are available for the home gardener. All have their own distinct characteristics - but none so distinguished as the Methley Plum. This variety has it all. A juicy sweet

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