When you think of fruit trees, you might envision sprawling apple or pear trees that require a lot of space and are typically grown outdoors in roomy gardens or orchards. However, growing fruit trees ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A thriving fruit tree with red apples - Korneliia Lutso/Shutterstock You don't need to live in a warm climate to plant fruit trees ...

Fruit trees. Consider planting a guava tree. Make sure it’s a tropical guava (Psidium guajava) and not a pineapple guava (Feijoa sellowiana) or a strawberry guava (Psidium callleianum). The latter two ...

There are a surprising number of types of fruit trees that can be grown indoors. While often fruit trees conjure up images of orchards or huge specimen trees, there are lots that can be successfully ...

For Sam Van Aken, grafting — a horticultural practice of joining two or more plants together — is about more than just creating the best harvest. It's a way to preserve trees, particularly varieties ...

Find out how to prune fruit trees properly, plus tips for timing your pruning right.

To encourage excellent fruit production year after year, it's important to prune your fruit trees. A neglected fruit tree can start to grow out of control and provide fruit of poor quality. The best ...