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National Gardening Kris Wetherbee |
Meet the Asian Pears Growing your own is the surest way to experience them at peak flavor |
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Peach Essentials Tips for growing peaches |
National Gardening Lee Reich |
Pruning Fruit Trees How to get young trees off to a good start and keep mature trees productive... |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Persimmons Consider the many virtues of persimmons, one of the most widely grown "exotic" fruits. |
National Gardening |
Planting and Pruning Plums European plums grow in tight clusters, but require little thinning. |
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Peach Care Peaches do best in well-drained, sandy soils. Plant in the spring so the tree will be well established by winter. |
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Fruit Tree Site Selection Of primary importance when choosing a planting site for you fruit tree is that it receives as much sun as possible. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Decoding Fruit Labels You may have noticed the individual stickers on many fruits in grocery stores. They're not just there to help checkout clerks record the price. The PLU numbered code on the stickers actually can tell you how the fruit was grown. |
National Gardening |
High Yielding, Shaded Strawberries Maximize strawberry harvest by providing shade during peak flowering. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
EZ Pick Fruit Trees These naturally dwarf trees grow only 6 to 10 feet tall, are easy to care for, and are perfect for small families. Available in apple, peach, pear, and other varieties. |
National Gardening William Ross |
Fruit Trees in Containers For folks who want to grow their own fruit, but who don't have adequate space or a suitable climate, growing fruit in containers offers several opportunities. |
National Gardening Lance Walheim |
What's New With Deciduous Fruit? New tree fruit varieties don't appear very often, but when they do, it usually points to a significant development in flavor, hardiness, or disease resistance. |
National Gardening |
Planning for Peaches As with most fruit trees, the trick is to start out with the peach variety that suits your climate. |
National Gardening |
Small Fruits & Berries 101 Compared with apples, peaches or any of the tree fruits, bush and bramble fruits are easy to grow. They rarely require spraying for pests and begin bearing some fruit the year after you plant them. |
National Gardening |
When to Harvest an Eggplant Yes, there is a moment of eggplant perfection... |
National Gardening Nan Sterman |
Hardy Kiwi Have you tasted these remarkable miniature kiwis yet? Every bit as delicious as the larger, more familiar fuzzy kiwi, hardy kiwis are much easier to grow and eat (skin and all). |
Fast Company July 1, 2007 Jennifer Boulden |
Rent-a-Farmer Cultivate a farmer. It's even better for the planet to buy local than organic. Why? Shipping. |
National Gardening Robert Kourik |
Fabulous Figs Which fig tastes best? Is it 'Panachee', 'Celeste', or perhaps 'Conadria'? |
National Gardening Whitney Cranshaw |
Healthy Home Orchards Use basic pest control techniques to harvest a healthy fruit crop. |
Food Processing January 2006 Ashman & Beckley |
Spotlight: Making fruit a treat Peeled Snacks mixes dried fruit, nuts and chocolate to create a craveable snack with the halo of fruits and nuts. But are consumers ready? |
Food Processing June 2007 Lee Stiffler-Meyer |
Dried and true Dried products offer a practical way to introduce real fruits into many products -- but first consider the drying technique. |
Food Processing August 2007 Ashman & Beckley |
Product Spotlight: Carbonating Fruit Fizzy Fruit Co. adds carbonation to grapes for a unique - and polarizing - experience. |
Seasoned Cooking November 2010 J. Sinclair |
Pears Pears can be eaten and used in a lot of the same ways as the apple. One distinct feature of the pear besides the shape is the soft texture. |
AskMen.com Damon Curzi |
10 Exotic Fruits That Add Kick To Meals From fruit that resembles a hand to fruit that smells like a sewer, there are endless options for spicing up your meals and desserts. And with most tropical and exotic fruits becoming more readily available and reasonably priced, they are certainly worth trying. |
Seasoned Cooking October 2007 Rossana S. Tarantini |
Crisp fall . . . Autumn is the right time of year to combine warm fruit crisp and cold ice cream for a perfect dessert treat. This special version uses no sugar or wheat, making it accessible to diabetics and those with certain allergies. |
National Gardening |
Getting to Know Squash There are three main types of squash -- summer, winter and pumpkin. Here are descriptions of the varieties and characteristics of each. |
Delicious Living December 2006 Elisa Bosley |
What's in Season Carambola (star fruit): Cut crosswise, these golden fruits yield beautiful five-point stars. |
National Gardening Lance Walheim |
How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees... |
National Gardening National Gardening editors |
Leave Doomed Tomatoes on the Vine Plastic mulch is the quickest way to ripe fruit... |
Chemistry World December 2, 2010 Akshat Rathi |
Using fruit flies' sweet tooth Australian researchers have used fruit flies' sweet tooth to help in attempts to develop new sugar alternatives. |
National Gardening |
Choosing Tomato Varieties Healthy, vigorous tomato vines can produce a lot of fruit. But of the thousands of varieties available, how do you narrow your choices? |
National Gardening David & Tina Silber |
Meet Babaco Imagine yourself in the cool and misty mountain valleys of Ecuador. It was there--no one knows exactly when--that a horticultural miracle occurred. A new type of papaya appeared, one perfectly suited to home-garden growing: The six-foot-high plant is completely adaptable to container growing, and it fruits prolifically. |
National Gardening Susan Weaver |
Sweet and Light Preserves Having made jam for several years, I had forgotten how much sugar standard jam- and jelly-making requires. I decided it was time to look into some of the "light" pectins on the market. |
Prepared Foods June 2, 2006 Marcia A. Wade |
Getting In and Out of a Jam A new line of pectins from CP Kelco allows manufacturers to create low-sugar jams and jellies while maintaining all the sensory quality of full-sugar fruit spreads. |
Prepared Foods July 1, 2009 Kerry Hughes |
R&D: Fruit and Vegetable Inclusions-- July 2009 Graceland Fruit Inc., a vegetable and fruit processing company in operation since 1973, has developed innovative new categories of processed fruits and vegetables as ready-to-use ingredients. |
National Gardening Shila Patel |
Drying Tomatoes Drying tomatoes is simple and the results -- delicious |
National Gardening |
Apple Essentials Tips on planting, tending, and harvesting |
This Old House Lynn Ocone |
Putting Down Roots How to add a tree to your yard---the right way. |
Seasoned Cooking November 2006 Ronda L. Carnicelli |
Crisp Days Recipe: Double Fruit Crisp: You can either choose an apple-cherry version or a peach-blackberry version. Both are sublime and will make a perfect ending to a special Thanksgiving meal. |
Food Processing June 2012 Diane Toops |
Food Biz Kids: Nabisco Newtons Fruit Thins Considered A Healthy Alternative to Cookies Junior high school age food reviewers thought Nabisco Newtons Fruit Thins were 'both tart and sweet.' |
National Gardening Lewis & Nancy Hill |
Seaberry Among the recent horticultural arrivals from Russia and central Asia is the seaberry, also known as sea buckthorn |
AskMen.com Dustin Driver |
Healthy Seasonal Eating The following fruits and veggies are in their prime for healthy seasonal eating during the summer months in North America, and they'll be tasty and affordable at your local supermarket. |
National Gardening Michael Phillips |
Growing Organic Apples How to grow blemish-free apples without resorting to unfriendly sprays |
Seasoned Cooking August 2005 J. Sinclair |
Peaches When summer rolls around and you want to grab a great snack on the go, there's nothing like a freshly picked juicy peach. And if you've picked a bushel, try these recipes for peach cobbler and, yes, peach mustard. |
Seasoned Cooking September 2009 Rossana S. Tarantini |
The Abundance of Fall My mom's canned peaches were an awesome way to top ice cream in the months where fresh "back yard" peaches were nowhere in sight. Or to eat straight out of the jar. |
Science News August 17, 2002 Janet Raloff |
Fruit: Towards Virtual Taste Tests When it comes to fresh fruit, looks can be deceiving. Federal engineers with the Agricultural Research Service hope to up a buyer's odds with a system they're developing that uses near infrared light to gauge each apple's sweetness and firmness. |
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The Care & Feeding of Christmas Trees Every tree trimmer's nightmare is the tree that immediately loses all its needles and becomes drier than the Nevada dessert in a mere matter of days. Don't let this happen to your tree... |
Chemistry World September 5, 2012 Elinor Hughes |
Fruit juice infused chocolate to reduce fat consumption Fruit juice has been used by scientists in the UK to replace up to half of the fat content from cocoa butter and milk fats in milk and white chocolate. |
This Old House Sal Vaglica |
Christmas Tree 101 Tips on how to buy the perfect tree, and what to do with it when you get home. |
AskMen.com Shannon Clark |
Healthy Summer Fruits For Guys Now's a prime time to take advantage of the seasonal fruits that are available to help boost your vitamin and fiber intake. Here are some of the main fruits you should focus on to fill your snacks to a well balanced meal. |