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National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Persimmons Consider the many virtues of persimmons, one of the most widely grown "exotic" fruits. |
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 Robert Kourik |
Fabulous Figs Which fig tastes best? Is it 'Panachee', 'Celeste', or perhaps 'Conadria'? |
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 |
Peach Essentials Tips for growing peaches |
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. |
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). |
National Gardening |
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 Lee Reich |
Pruning Fruit Trees How to get young trees off to a good start and keep mature trees productive... |
National Gardening |
Planting and Pruning Plums European plums grow in tight clusters, but require little thinning. |
National Gardening |
Peach Care Peaches do best in well-drained, sandy soils. Plant in the spring so the tree will be well established by winter. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
When Good Tomatoes Go Bad Here's a list of eight of the most common tomato fruit problems not caused by insect or disease. |
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 Whitney Cranshaw |
Healthy Home Orchards Use basic pest control techniques to harvest a healthy fruit crop. |
National Gardening Michael Phillips |
Growing Organic Apples How to grow blemish-free apples without resorting to unfriendly sprays |
National Gardening Kris Wetherbee |
Jostaberry Here is information on the jostaberry, a sweet berry that is easy to grow because of its resistance to disease. |
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 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. |
This Old House March 27, 2001 Lynn Ocone |
Growing Perfect Tomatoes Treat yourself to one of the true pleasures of summer: your own homegrown tomatoes fresh from the vine... |
National Gardening Robert E. Gough |
The Mighty Lingonberry Why, where, how to grow lingonberries. |
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 |
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 |
National Gardening Lee Reich |
Blueberry Prescription A timeless favorite for the garden and the kitchen... |
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. |
National Gardening Lee Reich |
Blackcap Brambles Despite the black raspberry's past popularity and the fact that it will grow well from zone 4 south through zone 8, today the blackcap is mostly a regional favorite. The middle Atlantic region and Ohio are traditional hotbeds of black raspberry enthusiasm. |
National Gardening |
Apple Essentials Tips on planting, tending, and harvesting |
National Gardening Lewis & Nancy Hill |
Seaberry Among the recent horticultural arrivals from Russia and central Asia is the seaberry, also known as sea buckthorn |
National Gardening Carolyn Male |
Tomato Diseases Forewarned is forearmed: how to read your tomato leaves. |
This Old House Lynn Ocone |
Putting Down Roots How to add a tree to your yard---the right way. |
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. |
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. |
National Gardening Ben Watson |
Veteran Vegetables While you're planting some of the newest vegetables, don't forget to leave some room for these classics. |
National Gardening |
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. |
National Gardening |
Tomato Problems Some problems with tomatoes are not caused by insects or diseases. Here are a few common problems. |
National Gardening Lance Walheim |
How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees... |
National Gardening |
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. |
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 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. |
National Gardening Deborah Wechsler |
Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Grow Space-Saving Tomatoes If you only have a small garden, there are varieties of tomatoes that will fit perfectly into the space. |
National Gardening Jack Ruttle |
Weird Tomatoes Heirloom tomatoes offer diverse characteristics and are easy to grow. Five top heirlooms are suggested. |
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. |
National Gardening Shila Patel |
Drying Tomatoes Drying tomatoes is simple and the results -- delicious |
National Gardening |
Maintaining a Vegetable Garden Healthy, vigorous vegetable plants produce the most flavorful and bountiful harvests. Give your garden plants the moisture and nutrients they need, and keep them weeded and harvested for tasty and nutritious crops. |
National Gardening June 2000 Beth Marie Renaud |
Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease |
National Gardening Deborah Wechsler |
Ten Steps to Giant Tomatoes If you want to join the ranks of supergrowers in your area, follow these 10 steps. |
This Old House December 2007 Jeanne Huber |
Choose a Live Christmas Tree Choose a live tree to extend the holiday spirit long past Christmas. Buy one now, plant it later, then watch it grow year after year. |
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. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Summer's Bad Guys A guide to some of the most common garden pests and their controls... |
Garden Gate |
More Unusual Potatoes There are all kinds of unusual, gourmet potatoes becoming available these days. Exotic varieties that could only be obtained by the fanciest restaurants are now showing up in the local food stores right next to their more common cousins. And you can grow these spuds in your home garden. |