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Planting Apple Trees Choose a site with full sun, moderate fertility, and good air circulation and water drainage. Apple trees will tolerate a wide range of soil conditions. While you can improve your soil with fertilizer and mulch, other factors will go a long way toward overcoming less-than-perfect soil.   |
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Peach Essentials Tips for growing peaches |
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Growing Apples Apples require a fair amount of patience planning. If you want a choice crop, you'll have to control insects, diseases, and other pests, worry about the weather, prune every year, keep up the harvest, and gather drops before they clog the lawn mower |
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Planting and Pruning Plums European plums grow in tight clusters, but require little thinning. |
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Michael Phillips |
Growing Organic Apples How to grow blemish-free apples without resorting to unfriendly sprays |
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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 |
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
Lance Walheim |
How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees... |
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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. |
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Blackberry Essentials Tips for growing blackberries |
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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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Kris Wetherbee |
Meet the Asian Pears Growing your own is the surest way to experience them at peak flavor |
National Gardening
Bonnie Lee Appleton |
Fall Tree Care The attention young trees need in Fall |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
Putting Down Roots How to add a tree to your yard---the right way. |
National Gardening
Jack Ruttle |
Apple Diseases Any of the three fungal diseases described here -- scab, cedar apple rust and powdery mildew -- can cause serious defoliation that threatens not just the quality of your apple crop but the future health of your trees as well. |
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Peach Tree Borer Peach tree borer is mostly a problem in California, but can occur wherever peaches grow. |
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Whitney Cranshaw |
Healthy Home Orchards Use basic pest control techniques to harvest a healthy fruit crop. |
The Family Room
Monica Resinger |
Potted Christmas Trees - Is It Worth It? Each holiday season, I think about getting a live, potted Christmas tree. I keep thinking that it would sure save a lot of money because we should be able to use it as a Christmas tree for a few years -- as long as I can keep it alive... |
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Tools for Planting Using the right tools and the proper techniques will not only make planting less of a chore, but also a greater success. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Early Bloomers Need a fix of flowers to offset the drab colors of winter? Just step outside. By pruning branches from many common deciduous trees and shrubs, you can create beautiful indoor bouquets to serve as harbingers of spring. |
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Lee Reich |
Pruning Fruit Trees How to get young trees off to a good start and keep mature trees productive... |
| Garden Gate |
Summer Escape: Planting Beneath Shade Trees If you've ever tried to grow a garden under a tree, you know that your plants have to compete with the tree's roots for space, water and nutrients. Here are some tips that can make growing a garden under a tree easier. |
National Gardening
Robert Kourik |
Fabulous Figs Which fig tastes best? Is it 'Panachee', 'Celeste', or perhaps 'Conadria'? |
National Gardening
Barbara Richardson |
El Nino Forecast for Gardeners With drought conditions prevailing in nearly half the country this year, it's been a tough time for gardeners. There is some relief in sight for the southern half of the U.S. as the El Nino weather system moves in this fall and winter. |
National Gardening
Robert Kourik |
Gardening Fact or Fallacy? Though plants, soils and weather conditions are always evolving, it seems as if some gardening practices become embedded like fossils. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009 |
Silva Cell Tech Makes for Safer Sidewalks and Healither Trees The roots of trees can push sidewalks out of position |
Popular Mechanics
September 5, 2008
Joseph Truini |
9 Steps to Planting a Tree (and Saving a Buck) There's never been a better time to grab a shovel and get planting. Here's what to do if you're transplanting a sapling tree from a nursery, as opposed to starting with seeds, in nine easy steps. |
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Planning for Peaches As with most fruit trees, the trick is to start out with the peach variety that suits your climate. |
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. |
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Sweet Cherries Get Easy Fresh sweet cherries have long been out of reach for most gardeners because the trees grow so big. The solution is to buy sweet cherries on a rootstock called 'Gisela'. It makes a tree you can maintain at 10 to 12 feet tall. Growers are especially excited because trees on 'Gisela' begin bearing heavy crops in just three or four years. |
This Old House
Max Alexander |
A Tree for All Seasons Trim it now, plant it later, and watch it grow through the years. |
Popular Mechanics
April 1998
Merle Henkenius |
Gardening Guide: Planting Mature Trees Cut years off your landscaping schedule with the right equipment and transplanting know-how... |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Bulb Planting Know-how You can avoid many bulb problems simply by planting and fertilizing correctly... |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
Smart Sprinkling When the skies are cloudless and the days are hot and long, you can help your lawn and garden survive by watering wisely |
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Sweet Corn Essentials Tips on planting, growing, and harvesting sweet corn. |
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Charlie Nardozzi |
Fungi for Roots Mycorrhizae fungi help plants grow... |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
Gardening by the Sea The author shares tips on growing a healthy and beautiful seaside garden. |
National Gardening
Jane von Trapp |
Entry Garden Make-Over A front entrance garden has to be functional and inviting, but where do you begin? |
This Old House
Josh Garskof |
Get Ready for Fall Now's the best time to spruce up your yard |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
May Is for Mulching Decorate and protect your beds now, before the heat of summer sets in. |
National Gardening
Barbara E. Richardson |
High-tech Dust Foils Pests Modified kaolin clay ushers in a new era in plant protection... |
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Asparagus Essentials Information about the planning, preparation, planting, care and harvesting of asparagus. |
| This Old House |
Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase. |
| National Gardening |
Mulching Trees and Shrubs Why mulch? Because it helps minimize weeds, conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and make your yard look good. |
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National Gardening editors |
Leave Doomed Tomatoes on the Vine Plastic mulch is the quickest way to ripe fruit... |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
The Kindest Cut How and when to prune small trees and shrubs |
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Planting Grapes The fall before you plant, mark the location for your vines. Get rid of all weeds, especially perennial ones, as your vines can easily survive 30 years or more in the same location. |
Popular Mechanics
September 19, 2008
Ryan M. Wilson |
How to Plant for Fall and Prepare Your Garden for Winter Planting a fall garden can be a rewarding effort and a great start to preparing your entire yard for winter's dormancy as the last head of lettuce is plucked. |
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Planning a Low-Maintenance Landscape Landscapes that require minimum time and money to maintain require thoughtful planning and installation. So invest early in planning and structures, and you'll pay (and work) less later. |
National Gardening
Shila Patel |
Peaches, Plums, Nectarines: When to Harvest Tree fruits are beginning to ripen this month, so we asked an expert on the subject how to harvest fruit at its absolute peak. |
