- Caring Properly for your Fruit Tree
Caring Properly for your Fruit Tree If you have just recently planted a new fruit tree, I think it is safe to assume you are not yet an expert on the subject. More fruit trees die in their beginning...
- Dealing with Barren Trees
Dealing with Barren Trees One of the most frustrating things that can possibly happen to someone who has slaved for hours and hours in growing a fruit tree is the unexplainable barrenness that can...
- Dealing with Bird Problems
Dealing with Bird Problems If you are lucky enough to have a cherry tree in your yard, I am sure I dont need to tell you how much enjoyment can come from them. Just eating the delicious cherries that...
- Dealing with Moths
Dealing with Moths Having a steady supply of fresh fruit from your backyard is quite a nice thing. Many people strive to attain this dream. However, many people fail to realize how easy it is to...
- Different Types of Apple Trees
Different Types of Apple Trees In the past, there have been only a couple different kinds of apple trees that you could buy. But now, thanks to the wonders of genetic engineering, if you want to buy...
- Finding Drought Resistant Trees
Finding Drought Resistant Trees If you live in an area that is slightly parched of water, you know better than anyone that one of the things that decides whether a tree survives or not is your...
- Growing Trees for Shade
Growing Trees for Shade If you are currently trying to plant trees in order to shade your garden, you will probably want something that grows very fast and provides plenty of shade. With the many...
- How to Prevent Small Fruits
How to Prevent Small Fruits The one thing that usually shocks new tree growers is the fact that the fruits produced by their tree are much smaller than the ones theyre used to seeing at the grocery...
- How to Safely Spray Pesticide
How to Safely Spray Pesticide If you want to protect your fruit tree from pests during the summer, this is almost impossible to accomplish without the use of pesticides or chemicals. This might scare...
- Maintaining a Healthy Young Tree
Maintaining a Healthy Young Tree Making sure that your fruit tree stays healthy is very important, but not as hard as some might think. There are several vital things you need to do: don't harvest...
- My First Tree
My First Tree Almost everyones first tree experience has some embarrassing events. Nobody can be an expert right away; we all make mistakes that sometimes haunt us for years afterwards. Some of us...
- Picking the Ideal Spot for your Fruit Tree
Picking the Ideal Spot for your Fruit Tree When growing a fruit tree, choosing the right place to plant it is very important. One thing that you have to consider is its proximity to a building,...
- Picking the Right Orange Tree
Picking the Right Orange Tree If you live in a hot, humid sub-tropical zone like Florida or California, you have many options for growing fruit trees. You are lucky enough to be able to support...
- Planting and Caring for a New Tree
Planting and Caring for a New Tree When you have decided on which kind of fruit tree you would like, and where you would like it, you can finally start to plant it. If you buy your tree from a...
- Preventing Diseases in Fruit Trees
Preventing Diseases in Fruit Trees If you maintain any pitted fruit trees such as plums, peaches, or cherries, Im sure you know that those types of trees are much more susceptible to diseases than...
- Protecting Trees with Bird Netting
Protecting Trees with Bird Netting If you have a problem with birds, you have probably tried many solutions. Some of the most popular include plastic animals, scarecrows, wind chimes, or highly...
- Pruning Your Trees
Pruning Your Trees If you have just entered the tree growing world, you have no doubt heard the term pruning tossed around by the more veteran growers. Well, I have something to admit. For several...
- Removing Old Trees
Removing Old Trees Sometimes a tree gets to the point where it is necessary to say goodbye to it. It can be a painful choice to make, but sometimes the tree gets too close to the house, gets too...
- Selling at Farmer's Markets
Selling at Farmer's Markets Usually the main motivation for planting a fruit tree is just the joy of maintaining a tree and eating the delicious fruit that comes from it. However, in my personal...
- Shaping Trees for Different Situations
Shaping Trees for Different Situations Through the use of pruning techniques, it is possible to shape your tree to a certain style. There are seven main tree shapes that all have their own benefits...
- Staking a Young Tree
Staking a Young Tree When a tree is in the young stages, one of the most vital things you need to provide for it in addition to water and nutrients is support. If you dont hold up the tree somehow,...
- Starting an Orchard
Starting an Orchard If you have a large amount of land that you have not put to use, you may consider planting an orchard. If youve had previous experiences with planting and maintaining trees, that...
- The Many Types of Cherry Trees
The Many Types of Cherry Trees One of the most pleasant trees you can possibly maintain is a cherry tree. The word Cherry is derived from the name of an ancient city in Turkey. It describes both the...
- Training Branches to go where You Want
Training Branches to go where You Want Many people associate pruning with changing the structure of your tree to fit a different shape or style. However, this is not the case. Altering the structure...
- What to Look for when Buying a Tree
What to Look for when Buying a Tree Although the process of growing and caring for a tree is generally challenging and even difficult at times, sometimes one of the hardest parts is choosing which...
