Often the snow on the hilly south side of my house has melted by early March, allowing snowdrops to push their little noses out of the ground and permitting me to pick buds that open up indoors. Most ...
Growing an apple tree indoors is rewarding because the right dwarf variety, pot, and care can give you fresh fruit year-round ...
Every autumn, I begin to crave generic seasonal comforts: the hues of turning leaves, the chill of sweater weather. I’m not really a pumpkin-spice person, but I’m a sucker for a classic u-pick apple ...
Plant a little apple tree this autumn and it has the winter for its roots to establish before next year’s dry weather. Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don has around 60 different types of apple tree ...
JUST in time for International Apple Day, Suttons Seeds has issued a guide to the best apple trees for UK gardens, and not surprisingly there is no sign of the “mono flavour” apples denounced by super ...
Zoë Migicovsky is a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University. You take a bite out of your midday apple and it’s just perfect: the right amount of crunch, juice, sweet ...
Q: I would like a Gala apple tree to match my two Anna apple trees. They are about 12 feet apart. How far from them can I plant the Gala tree, and will there be a problem with cross-pollination or ...