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 to plant apple trees in a location...
Category: Plants And Trees
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. According to many...
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 other deciduous...
Gardening has gone vertical. With more people interested in growing their own food, new growing systems have emerged to take advantage of vertical growing space. But, do these systems really...
Food forests are all the rage, and they have many homeowners digging up their lawns to plant micro-farms in the back yard. But, what is a food forest, and how do you start one? A food forest is a...
It seems counterintuitive to cut off branches, leaves, or even roots to get larger, fuller plants. And yet, it’s one of the most important maintenance tasks for a thriving, healthy lawn and...