2. Pear trees Pears are another go-to choice for gardeners looking to grow their own fruit. Like apples, it's important to learn how to prune pear trees to encourage the best crop every year.

Growing the best fruit trees for your own flavorsome fruit is easy when you know which tree to buy. Homegrown fruit tastes ten times better than shop-bought produce, contains a greater density of ...

When fruit trees, bushes or vines require cross-pollination, you must plant two or more different varieties of that fruit so that they can pollinate each other and successfully produce fruit. The ...

Fruit trees can grow well in a variety of soil types as long as the soil is well-drained. If you are growing standard-size fruit trees, you should have soil that is 4 to 9 feet deep.

It’s amazing what you can do with a third of an acre of land. Take Alex Silber, for example. On a piece of ground this size, he is growing 52 exotic fruit trees, shrubs, and vines, 9 exotic ...

“From around the 1930s to the late 1940s, they developed 14 different varieties of stone fruit and most of these were early producers and low chill varieties,” said Frank McDonough, a ...

When choosing fruit trees for your garden, the type of fruit you select is only one of many things to consider. You might begin by deciding, for example, whether you will grow apples, pears, plums ...

WALKER -- John Dainsberg, master gardener, suggested fruit tree varieties likely to succeed in northern Minnesota. While dwarf varieties make it easier to pick fruits, he said they are not as ...

Here they have been planted for over 10 years, and I have yet to pick and eat any fruit from any of the trees. The problem that I am experiencing is fruit drop-off.