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How To Prune Grapes - Summer Care

How To Prune Grapes - Summer Care Summer pruning helps control vigorous growth, improve fruit quality, and keep your grapevines healthy and productive throughout the growing season.

When Grapes Are Ready to Harvest: A Guide to Determining Ripeness

When Grapes Are Ready to Harvest: A Guide to Determining Ripeness Harvesting grapes at the right time is crucial for achieving optimal flavor, sugar content, and overall quality. Grapes can be used for fresh eating, winemaking, or cooking, and each purpose may have slightly different ripeness criteria. Here’s a comprehensive guide on when grapes are ready to be harvested.

Growing Seedless Grapes

Growing Seedless Grapes Seedless grapes are easy to grow and are healthy, ready-to-eat snacks. Learn what makes grapes seedless, and get expert tips so you can grow great seedless grapes.

Growing Muscadine Grapes

Growing Muscadine Grapes Muscadine grapes are hands-down favorites for home gardeners in warm climates. Follow these tips and enjoy success with growing muscadine grapes.

Thriving in the High Desert: A Guide to Growing Fruit

Thriving in the High Desert: A Guide to Growing Fruit Unlock the secrets to cultivating a lush fruit garden in the high desert. Learn how to thrive amidst arid climates, rugged terrains, and extreme temperatures with our expert gardening tips. Discover resilient fruit varieties suited for the unique challenges of high desert gardening.

Unboxing our Mini Orchard from Stark Bro’s - With Video

Unboxing our Mini Orchard from Stark Bro’s - With Video Stark Bro's team member Katie unboxes her mini orchard for her family's homestead. Packed with fruit trees, berry plants, and garden plants-all in one box!

Adding Fruit to Your Homestead

Adding Fruit to Your Homestead For over 200 years, Stark Bro's Nursery has been helping homesteaders across America live more self-sufficient lifestyles. As the oldest continually operating nursery in the country, we've curated a time-tested collection of over 300 unique varieties of fruit trees, nut trees and berry plants.

The Best Berries for Baking

The Best Berries for Baking Which berries are best for baking? Here we share some of the berries that you can grow, mix and match to bake the best homemade berry pies.

How to Espalier Fruit Trees

How to Espalier Fruit Trees The art of espalier fruit trees is all about selectively pruning and training trees into a desired shape, maximizing beauty and functionality in small spaces. Follow these steps to learn how to espalier fruit trees successfully.

Garden Wines from Fruits & Berries

Garden Wines from Fruits & Berries You don’t have to grow grapes to make wonderful wines at home. Here are some tips and tools to make your own garden wines, from author Nan K. Chase.

Pest Control Using Garden Netting

Pest Control Using Garden Netting Garden netting is an easy solution to animal pests (and big bugs) without using traps or chemicals. Learn how to use garden netting to protect your harvest.

Fruit Tree Care: Organic Disease Control

Fruit Tree Care: Organic Disease Control It is possible to have a successful organic fruit tree orchard. Read about some of the most common fungal issues and how to practice organic disease control.

The Importance of Soil Testing

The Importance of Soil Testing Healthy fruit trees are the key to growing great fruit. Soil testing is one thing you can do to determine what your fruit trees need for success.

What Does Recommended Spacing Mean?

What Does Recommended Spacing Mean? Knowing a tree’s mature spread and recommended spacing is important! Read about this and some other frequently asked questions in our Spring 2014 update.

Homemade Apple Punch Recipe

Homemade Apple Punch Recipe October is Apple Month at Stark Bro's. Delight in this fruity apple punch recipe from the Granny Stark's Apple Cookbook by Olwen Woodier.

Berry Plants: How Many Years Until Fruit?

Berry Plants: How Many Years Until Fruit? Growing your own berry plants is a rewarding endeavor. Find out how many years it takes to yield your first berry harvest. It may be sooner than you think.