Imagine biting into a crisp, juicy apple picked fresh from your own garden. Growing apple trees at home is not just a rewarding endeavor; it also connects you with nature and enhances your culinary ...

If you've always wanted to grow apple trees, March and April are great times to plant. But before you buy a tree, here are things to consider.

Soil Preparation: Apples thrive in well-drained, loamy soil. Test your soil pH and amend it as needed. Sunlight: Choose a planting location that receives full sunlight for at least six hours a day.

Many of the most highly popular fruit trees can successfully be grown in containers thanks to dwarf modern cultivars ...

Apple trees need pollen from a different variety to grow fruit. If there are other apple trees nearby in your neighborhood — even crabapple — one tree may be all you need to plant.

Most trees with long, flexible branches, such as apple, cherry, fig, peach, pear, plum and quince lend themselves nicely to ...

When planting apple trees in your yard, it’s worth thinking beyond soil drainage and light conditions—and even the delicious fruit you’ll eventually get to eat. However, you should also ...

Ever try growing an apple tree from a seed? In this time lapse, we demonstrate how a seed was stratified after extraction ...

When Jeanne Isom planted 200 apple trees at her Blackfoot home in 1994, she never anticipated her family would own a thriving fruit farm 30 years later.

The fact that apples grown from seedling trees are extremely tart and basically inedible — as opposed to cloned or grafted trees — did not hinder the efforts of Johnny Appleseed.