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Planting. Fruit trees should be planted about as deep as they were growing in their nursery pot, but high enough so that all ...

Fruit trees. Consider planting a guava tree. Make sure it’s a tropical guava (Psidium guajava) and not a pineapple guava (Feijoa sellowiana) or a strawberry guava (Psidium callleianum). The latter two ...

Growing Grumichama, what type of drainage (if any) to use in raised vegetable garden beds, why is my lemon tree shedding ...

For Sam Van Aken, grafting — a horticultural practice of joining two or more plants together — is about more than just creating the best harvest. It's a way to preserve trees, particularly varieties ...

A selection of fruit trees for sale at a nursery - Sergey Dudikov/Shutterstock If you're planning to purchase one or more fruit trees from your local nursery or garden center to plant in your yard, ...

A welcome sight each spring, cherry trees provide some of the first blossoms of the season. Fragrant, single- or double-flowers cover the small tree’s leafless branches. There are two groups of cherry ...