We have a large apple tree (about 3 stories) in our backyard. It’s beautiful but it produces thousands of small (lady apple-size) apples in Midsummer. Some days I’ll pick several hundred in a shot.

A garden is more than just a pretty backdrop or a source of homegrown produce -- it's a living system, and the plants you choose can play a powerful role in supporting its health and biodiversity.

Get rid of dead or damaged branches and keep the tree's size in check. If you look forward to harvesting fruit from your own apple trees to make jams, pies, and jars of apple butter, the first step is ...

Growing up in Swain County, North Carolina, Nathan Dee Greene ate a lot of apples. The family had several trees of their own, but every fall, they bought bushels from the nearby orchard on Laurel ...