No fruit embodies the essence of warmer weather quite like the peach, particularly when it is harvested from one's own garden. While cultivating peach trees may be intimidating, t ...

Pruning is a necessary task when you’re gardening, but did you know there’s a right and wrong way to do it? It’s not as simple as just hacking away at pieces of your plants and hoping for the best. In ...

There’s nothing as sweet as enjoying a home-grown fruit harvest, but the wait time can be years for many trees to bear fruit. There are fast-growing fruit trees that can give you fruit quickly, though ...

Don’t ruin your spring blooms! Discover what not to prune now—and the right time to trim dogwood, lilac, azalea, forsythia, and more.

Once you're sure there are no more freezes in sight, you have a laundry list of plants to prune so that they flower and regrow beautifully in spring.

Get Neil Sperry's tips to save azaleas, prune a potted Meyer lemon, pick better fertilizer and steer clear of invasive pears.

For those who enjoy growing their own produce, this iconic peach tree is an ideal choice that will give you tender fruit and beautiful flowers.

Another big no-no this early is cleaning up leaves and trampling through your garden once the snow melts. For one thing, many of the dormant insects are still resting. If you start throwing away ...

March is here. It is usually the start of our dry season, but we are heading into the season in a serious drought.

March is a time of great change in weather and we are already seeing it in its first week. After February's moderate to severe drought like conditions, this early ...

Cooperative Extension is hosting a Free Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop with N.C. State Fruit Tree Specialist, Dr. Mike Parker, from 9-11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The workshop will take place at Ramsey ...

Nearly 60 residents gathered at the Old Firehouse Community Center, 100 Avon Belden Road, on Feb. 12 for a free fruit tree pruning class hosted by the city of Avon Lake and the Avon Lake Tree ...