With proper light and care, you can successfully grow fruit trees indoors. Grab a well-draining pot and check out these trees ...
You can grow cherries indoors with an eye toward fruit, beauty, or both. You should look for dwarf and semi-dwarf varieties ...
Green-thumbed shoppers keen to start growing their own fruit can't go wrong with a traditional apple tree, which is set to yield masses of sweet and crisp fruit as early as its first growing season.
Citrus trees are beautiful, fragrant, and gift-worthy—but they also need real TLC. Before you buy one for someone special, ...
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 ...
If you want to add fruit trees to your yard, make a "heading cut" when you plant them to keep the trees small. This prevents them from growing too tall for you to reach. At the shorter height, you'll ...
It turns out that finding the perfect planter is more difficult than you might think. Think of it like finding the perfect partner - it takes time, and there is a list of requirements. And when it ...
You could imagine these White Rind Trio pots, by Brooklyn-based design duo Chen Chen and Kai Williams, in a Magritte painting. The idea behind the Surrealist planters is to grow a plant in another ...
Imagine a cactus that grows rapidly in ordinary garden soil and whose luscious fruit sells at the supermarket for $4.99 per pound. Would you want to try to grow that cactus? I recently wrote about ...
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 ...
Dwarf apple trees are a great option for those who want to grow fruit but have a small yard. They have certain care needs to ...