Anyone who has grown raspberries for a few seasons learns quickly that these plants are sun chasers. Raspberry bushes need

Pecans are usually ready to harvest from early fall into late fall, with many trees dropping nuts sometime between September

Most people who want cherries from their own yard run into the same problem early on: most sweet cherries need

Cut a ripe persimmon open and hold it close, and the first thing that surprises most people is how quiet

A bare root tree shows up looking like a bundle of bare sticks with a tangle of roots and no

The Italian prune is one of those trees that quietly earns its place in a yard. It's a small, oval,

Most people treat grass clippings like trash. Bag them, drag them to the curb, forget about them. After enough years

A ripe Flavortop nectarine eaten warm off the tree is the kind of thing that turns a casual gardener into

A single buck can strip the bark off a young maple in one evening, and most people don't notice until

Every summer the same scene plays out at my market stand. Someone picks up a Reed, turns it over a

Most struggling blueberry bushes I get asked to look at didn't fail from bad pruning or the wrong fertilizer. They

The Biloxi blueberry is a low-chill southern highbush variety that USDA breeders released in 1998 so people in hot, mild-winter