Get your backyard orchard started now by choosing from the following popular types of fruit trees that you can plant in ...

There never was an apple tree like mine! Last fall James Lawson, who with with his wife, Bernice, runs an apple nursery up at Ball Ground, promised me an apple tree to surpass even the apple trees for ...

A tradition many people look forward to in autumn is an outing to the apple orchard. Pick-your-own apples, hay wagons, corn mazes and apple cider along with soaking up the ...

Having lived all my life in USDA Hardiness Zone 3, I have tried with little success to grow apples. The following are some hardy varieties for our growing conditions.

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...

Q. I hate those sweet gum balls. I heard there is a way to prevent them. Can you tell me more? Does anyone have any good use for the blasted things? I know those hanging are going to start dropping ...