The production of fruit trees relies critically on the careful selection and combination of rootstocks and cultivars. Rootstocks are used not only to control tree vigour and enhance nutrient uptake ...

Apples are getting ready to bloom soon. After a long winter of frozen, canned and dried fruit from my home orchard, I'm anxiously awaiting fresh, ripe, juicy fruit. How do you choose fruit tree ...

Have you ever heard of the pawpaw tree or its fruit? No? Well, same, until today. The pawpaw tree is native to Ohio and is in fact extremely common, according to the Ohio Department of Natural ...

The pawpaw tree, which produces Ohio's official native fruit, is common throughout the state. Pawpaw fruit tastes like a combination of banana, mango, and pineapple and is harvested in late summer and ...

Persimmon is an orange, tomato-shaped fruit that has a sweet taste similar to a cantaloupe. Often growing on smaller trees, ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...

Nalani Vaughn, owner of Fruitmommy Organic Solutions, watched as her crew of experienced pruners removed deadwood and branches from the grove of 15 mature navel and Valencia orange trees, survivors of ...