There’s nothing as sweet as enjoying a home-grown fruit harvest, but the wait time can be years for many trees to bear fruit. There are fast-growing fruit trees that can give you fruit quickly, though ...

Many homeowners harbor secret dreams of planting an orchard and becoming more self-sufficient. The cost of fresh fruit can be ...

Get Neil Sperry's tips to save azaleas, prune a potted Meyer lemon, pick better fertilizer and steer clear of invasive pears.

My azaleas are dying, one after the other. This has been going on for the past year. Is this a disease? Is there anything I ...

One of the most common questions we receive in Extension is: When is the best time to prune my fruit trees? The general rule of thumb is to prune in late winter or early spring, while trees are still ...

What’s the hardest thing, psychologically, for normally reasonable gardeners to do? For decades I have extolled folks to ...

I find that fruits and vegetables grown at home taste particularly good. Prune fruit trees in our area between late February and early March before the buds begin to swell. The branching habits are ...

The Righetti FFA are the state champions after competing in the finals for fruit tree pruning at Fresno State University last week. The team consists of Evelyn Pera (4th high individual), Aaron Davila ...

While the rest of your garden is sleeping peacefully under a blanket of snow or damp leaf litter, February is the perfect time to do some outdoor yard work. Deciduous trees enter a period of dormancy ...

A Celina couple says they felt they had few options over a holiday weekend when they learned their decades-old red oak trees could be removed as part of a power line project — so, they took a stand.

My rosemary plants die back every year, but I do know someone who has had a large rosemary plant that has lived through several winters. What can I do to keep mine alive in cold weather? In general, ...