Shrubs that bear small fruits can be a great addition to your garden. These can include currants, gooseberries, chokecherries, plums, jostaberries and service berries. Whether you grow them to eat or ...

If you've seen the prices in grocery stores recently, then you know fresh fruits and veggies are getting really expensive. But growing your own food in your garden is a great way to save money over ...

Persimmon is an orange, tomato-shaped fruit that has a sweet taste similar to a cantaloupe. Often growing on smaller trees, ...

You don’t need acres of land to enjoy home-grown sweetness. With the right pots, sunlight, and a bit of patience, you can ...

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 ...

Fruit trees can convert a strictly ornamental garden into a multipurpose home landscape. Because fruits are good-looking as well as nutritious, they can dress up a sunny spot in the front garden as ...

You can have a fruit garden in almost any small yard, it just takes planning. As backyards have become smaller in the past few years, plant breeders have been working hard to scale down fruit bearing ...

Figs are one of the most widely planted fruit trees in home landscapes in Louisiana. They thrive in the New Orleans area and are remarkably easy to take care of. With little effort, they will produce ...

Maybe you know your watering, pruning, and fertilizing well enough to get your fruit trees and bushes to produce something edible out of a pot. Maybe the bugs won’t infest, and the deer won’t eat ...

Can I reduce the height of my apple trees so all the fruit is within reach without a ladder? Is this a good time to prune apple and other fruit trees? Fruit trees can be pruned any time from now until ...