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The most popular seasons for planting apple trees are spring and fall. Experienced growers often opt for fall planting because it holds several advantages over spring planting.  Apple trees can …

If you want healthy, productive apple trees, they need full sun. Full sun means exposure to a minimum of six hours per day of direct summer sunlight. Do you want …

According to the dictionary, a fruit is defined as, “the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, containing one or more seeds” (source). By this definition, a pear is a fruit. …

Pear trees are one of the most resilient fruit trees you can grow, but there may be complications that cause them to lose their leaves or hinder foliage development.  Like …

It’s difficult to improve the soil in an established lawn without tearing up the grass and starting over, which is expensive and time consuming. Most homeowners and lawn maintenance professionals …

Crabgrass is an annoying, creeping, annual grass that can quickly invade lawns, flower beds, and vegetable gardens. It is such a prolific nuisance that there are multiple sprays and chemical …

Lush, colorful flower beds increase curb appeal while attracting bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. However, these same colorful flower beds also increase the amount of time you will spend transplanting, weeding, …

Food forests, living walls, and hydroponic salad gardens are flooding DIY websites as seed sales hit a historic high. Many people are taking an interest in producing their own food …

People are taking an interest in where their food comes from and how it was grown- which is awesome- but it has led to a flood of misinformation about what …

Organic gardeners are all about rich, dark soil. Compost is the black gold of the gardening community. Everything seems to center around nutrient-dense organic matter. So, doesn’t that mean we …