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Preparing your soil before planting fruit trees is crucial for healthy growth and optimal yield. Follow soil prep techniques ...

If you're planning to purchase one or more fruit trees from your local nursery or garden center to plant in your yard, you should be prepared to wait at least a couple of years for the trees to bear ...

I would like to add some native trees to my yard. I am also interested in adding fruit production to my gardening plan. What Missouri native trees would be appropriate for landscaping and also ...

From left: Bob Hawkins, Nicole Pramik, and the author at The Farm at Okefenokee. What do I put on the bottom of a raised garden bed? Design your raised bed garden layout to maximize sunlight and ...

The Center for Pollinator Research suggests that blooming fruit trees, such as apple, pear and stone fruits, are some of the best nutritional sources for a diverse mix of pollinators. In addition ...

A popular gardening expert who goes by Uncle Josh Gardens (@theplanttechie) on TikTok posted a video cautioning followers about the use of rubber tree rings. "NEVER use around your fruit trees," he ...

Many dwarf fruit trees are easy to grow in containers, indoors or outdoors, or both. One somewhat less common fruit tree choice is the dwarf fig, which does well in colder zones outdoors in summer but ...

Details about the scientific conference can be found at: cama2025.com. Tree fruit pathologists will also be traveling to Washington in June for the fourth annual International Symposium of Fire Blight ...

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Strawberry fields will forever exist for the in-demand fruit, but the laborers who do the backbreaking work of harvesting them might continue to dwindle. While raised, high-bed cultivation ...