If you’ve got a small space but an appetite for a fresh-picked fruit, there is no reason to despair. You don’t need a huge orchard to fill your fruit bowl. Not only can you grow multiple varieties of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While many people have focused on the health benefits of gardening in recent years, another rewarding aspect of working with ...

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

An old tree can be perpetuated by grafting one of its stems onto a young rootstock. Learn how to graft trees that grow multiple fruits and the benefits of why graft trees are worth it. Grafting is the ...

While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this work at Gold Ridge, his 11-acre property in Sebastopol. There he grew the famous tree that ...

It may be the season for cold and rain, but this is the perfect time for grafting different varieties onto your deciduous fruit trees. The Foothill chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers is ...

While many people have focused on the health benefits of gardening in recent years, another rewarding aspect of working with plants hasn't received quite as much attention. Gardening promotes ...