Articles from The Growing Guide

Year-Round Fruit Tree Care: Spray & Weed Control Guide A properly executed schedule for maintaining fruit trees and their growing site is key to success. Plan ahead: the rewards are worth the effort!

A Perfect Shade of Tree: The Hybrid Willow Hybrid willow trees have vigorous growth: pushing about 12 feet per year. They reach a mature height around 30-40 feet tall in less than 5 years.

Fruit Tree Care: Watering & Fertilizing Watering and fertilizing fruit trees at the best time and in appropriate amount helps them achieve their purpose – bearing delicious fruit.

Grow Mouthwatering Blueberries Blueberry plants yield tasty, nutritious "super berries". Growing your own blueberries is rewarding! Follow these tips for planting and maintenance.

Fruit Trees: Years to Fruit Does it really take as long as you think before you are harvesting homegrown fruit? Find out how many years it takes your fruit trees to bear fruit.

An EZ Start® to Growing Trees Some folks prefer to transplant fruit and nut trees with soil around the roots. The alternative to bareroot: potted trees grown in our Stark® EZ-Start® program.

All About Persimmons Asian and American Persimmon trees are great low-maintenance additions to your garden. Plus, here's a recipe for dehydrating persimmon fruit.

Fruit Tree Care: Planting Fruit Trees Few things in life bring the same satisfaction as planting fruit trees. Learn to avoid future problems by following simple planning steps before you plant.

All About Strawberries Learn all about growing your own strawberries — from planting to harvesting, and the different natures of some strawberry plants.

Fruit Tree Care: Pre-Pruning There are three basic reasons for pruning fruit trees: survival, stimulation & shaping. In this article, pruning for survival and stimulation are discussed.