If you want to plant fruit trees to enjoy the joys of homegrown harvests, the fall is a perfect time to do so. The ground ...

Plant two pear varieties for best pollination. The flowers of most pear varieties can't pollinate themselves. Instead, they must cross-pollinate with a different variety to develop fruit. A different ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Bradford pear trees bear bright white flowers Credit: Photo by Johnny Brewer on Unsplash There is ...

ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - One of the gardening skills that tend to be forgotten in this day and time is grafting and budding. Grafting and budding are horticultural techniques used to join parts ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! It is hard to believe this is the last week of April. Hopefully, most of the cold weather is behind us as we experienced two very chilling nights this week ...

Q: We had a Bradford pear that suddenly, with no warning at all, fell over in a brisk windstorm last March. It could have fallen onto our house, into the neighbor’s fence, or over our landscape, so at ...

As of 2023, it is illegal to sell, plant or grow Callery pear trees in Ohio, with similar bans to hit other states in 2024. By Ryan W. McEwan / The Conversation Published Mar 8, 2023 9:00 PM EST This ...

The callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) made its appearance in the United States in the 1900s when it was imported from Asia to improve the health of our common pear, which was prone to fire blight. A ...

Q. I have an Asian pear that I planted several years ago but it has never fruited. This spring it had lots of blooms, but it still doesn’t look like it has set any fruit. Can you tell me what is wrong ...