You can harvest luscious peaches, crisp apples and sweet plums right off your own tree. Garden designer and fruit expert Colby Eierman’s Fruit Trees In Small Spaces (Timber Press, 2012) shows how ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty / Yippa Many people dream of picking their own fresh fruit, but they live in areas with long, harsh winters. However, even ...

Fruit trees are wonderful, but they require a lot of space to thrive. If you're restricted to a patio or small back yard, ...

We all enjoy apples, pears, plums, oranges and other fruits that are commonly available in our grocery stores, but there are many other less familiar fruits. This topic was prompted by the upcoming ...

Hybrid fruit trees are often hardier. They can also produce delicious fruit in more abundance than their parents. That's a boon for birds visiting your yard.

Within a few years of lovingly planting fruit trees, most folks find themselves with scraggly overgrown bushes, rather than the Garden of Eden they had envisioned. The key to keeping fruit trees ...