You don’t need to own an orchard or live in the tropics to grow fresh fruit. You can grow dwarf fruit trees even if you have a small yard.
From pruning and spraying to cutting back and attacking slugs, February is full of important chores for the attentive gardener.
The best way to avoid sprouts when taking out a Bradford pear tree is to have an arborist grind the stump out.
Many garden lovers are eagerly awaiting spring and the start of the gardening season. But there is already a lot of work to ...
Is your fruit tree looking sick or bearing bad fruit? Fruit tree diseases are common: Here's how to identify the problem so ...
So, in January, you should avoid pruning spring-flowering shrubs such as forsythia, lilacs, and flowering currants. For ...
What is the best way to feed and prune a number of Nellie R. Stevens hollies we planted five years ago in order to encourage ...
Many winter gardening mistakes are easy to make but can have dire consequences for your precious plants. So, while cracking ...
AS a gardener, you wouldn’t plant a rhododendron in chalky soil. And when it comes to clematis – it ‘roots in the shade – scrambles up to the sun’ – while roses do well in ...
If you want to ensure that your garden will grow more abundant fruits and flowers after winter, a few plants need to be ...
Gardeners who have apple or pear trees are being urged to inspect them ... try to cut out all infected material. All such pruning should remove all brown, infected bark and wood, cutting back ...
Last week I discussed pruning stone fruit, which includes peaches, nectarine, apricots and plums trees. Once again with pruning any plant, first remove the 3 D’s first — dead, damaged and diseased ...