I wanted to know if honeycrisp apple trees grow in your locale, or is it too warm? I saw they need 800 chilling hours. Honeycrisp apples will grow in this area. If fact, they're grown commercially in ...
Growing your own fruit at home may sound like it requires a lot of time and effort for healthy trees and bumper harvests. But it does not always require long hours of arduous care and maintenance ...
Apples and persimmons are two of the most popular fruit trees for personal gardens, but they have quite different needs, ...
Sure, you can walk into the grocery store and toss a bag of nectarines or apples into your shopping cart, but wouldn’t it be better if you could just walk out your back door? We found a book, Fruit ...
Move over, Honeycrisp and Red Delicious. We asked apple growers, marketers, and breeders which new apples to look out for at ...
CORVALLIS, Ore. – From newly minted gardeners to avid urban farmers, everyone with a patch of land wants to grow an apple tree. Other fruits – pears, cherries, figs, plums – are desirable, too, but ...
When Brett and Skye Lawlor decided they wanted to plant apple trees throughout Rapid City, choosing the kind of apple was the easy part. The father and son went with their favorite, Honeycrisps. "The ...
Dear Master Gardener: Will you please write about growing apricot and cherry trees in northern Minnesota? Answer: Apricots need two varieties for cross-pollination. Two University of Minnesota apricot ...