Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While many people have focused on the health benefits of gardening in recent years, another rewarding aspect of working with ...

While most of your gardening tasks wrap up as winter progresses, it could be just the right time to pay attention to your ...

Late winter is the perfect time to start getting your fruiting trees and shrubs ready for spring. Now is a good time for pruning and planting. And it is a great time to graft! Grafting is a method of ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...

We all like variety, especially in fruit. Grow an assortment of apples by grafting. With a little diligence, even folks with smaller yards can grow their own fruit trees. And if you can grow one type ...

While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this work at Gold Ridge, his 11-acre property in Sebastopol. There he grew the famous tree that ...

While many people have focused on the health benefits of gardening in recent years, another rewarding aspect of working with plants hasn't received quite as much attention. Gardening promotes ...