From pruning and spraying to cutting back and attacking slugs, February is full of important chores for the attentive gardener.

Are you planting trees for a fruit orchard ... Then buying bare-root trees may well be a more viable alternative to potted plants. Just make sure you do your homework and familiarize yourself ...

Planting a bare-root fruit tree is a bit like laying a hopeful foundation for the seasons to come – giving roots the chance to establish and awaken. Bare-root trees, unlike potted varieties ...

Happy New Year! My New Year’s wish is for nice, slow, soaking rainfalls to help our new plants establish and our established plants thrive. What’s your garden wish for 2025? Bare root fruit ...

The dormant season is a great time to sow flower seeds, establish trees and shrubs, and get started on the vegetable garden.

Bare-root trees are only available for a short ... about a specific variety’s chill requirement or ask at the nursery. Fruit trees differ in another important way, at least if you care about ...

The dormant season is the perfect time to plant fruit and nut trees in East Texas. With the cooler temperatures, planting now ...

A key factor in getting a successful crop is the tree's rootstock. To ensure a productive tree, nurseries attach part of one tree to another recommended for growing fruit. This is called grafting ...

Citrus is conveniently seasonable when not much other fruit is available from home gardens through winter, but they seem like ...

Apples are the most accommodating and long lived of fruit trees, and they cope with our wet climate quite well. There are ...

THAT little rodent in Pennsylvania will let us know how long winter will last. But since it will be a new month, February is a time for many a gardener to get busy in preparation for “spring gardening ...

Coppiced vegetation is initially not much to see through winter, but should be more vigorous and less congested as it ...