Here's everything you need to know to start your own home orchard.

Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...

Growing fruit trees in the Northwest can be a very rewarding venture. There is nothing quite like going out to the back yard and picking a handful of tree-ripened cherries, a juicy Asian pear or ...

Apples are one of the fruits which require cross pollination from two different varieties to produce fruit because they are self-sterile. Editor’s note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU ...

Don Kinzler answers questions about the best time to prune a rose bush and cross-pollination. He also gives a reader a recommendation for an evergreen tree that won't grow taller than 25 feet ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu. I was wondering if you could provide me with a list of which fruit ...

Growing fruit trees in our own back yards can be lots of fun and nutritionally rewarding. It does, however, take some time and effort to be successful, and a willingness to accept less than perfect ...