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Top 5 Fruits to Add to Your Landscape Have you thought about adding berry plants or fruit trees to your landscape? This is referred to by many as foodscaping. Taking your traditional landscape and turning it into a food-producing growing space is an idea taking gardeners by storm.

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.

Best Fruits for Partial Shade Let’s face it, as much as we might all desire several acres of blazing sunlight to grow everything under the full face of the sun, many of us live in suburban or urban environments that present a challenge when we want to grow our own food.

Fertilizing Organic Fruit Trees It’s entirely possible to nourish your prized organic fruit trees without using harsh chemicals. Learn what to use as well as when (and when not) to fertilize.

Fruit Tree Sizes Do you want to grow your own, but find fruit tree sizes a bit confusing? We're here to help clear up some of the fruit tree sizing lingo.

Growing 2-N-1 Fruit Trees If you live in suburbia, or want to grow your own fruit but don't have the room, then consider growing space-saving multi-grafted fruit trees.

What are Espaliered Fruit Trees? You don't have to be a Master Gardener to have beautiful espalier fruit trees in your own backyard. Let's talk about the basics.

Indoor Gardening with Purpose: Fresh Ingredients Year-Round Imagine walking into your home and being greeted by the vibrant greenery of your very own indoor garden. With aromatic herbs, fresh ingredients, and even small fruiting plants, indoor gardening can turn any space into a productive and inviting haven. Whether you’re looking to save on grocery costs, enjoy a steady supply of organic produce, or simply find joy in gardening throughout the year, growing indoors is a rewarding way to make the most of your space.

How to Care for Citrus Trees in Containers & Successfully Grow Citrus Indoors Imagine filling your home with the vibrant scent of citrus blossoms, while enjoying fresh fruit all year long—even if you live outside the ideal growing zones for citrus! Growing citrus in containers makes this possible, allowing you to bring the beauty and flavor of citrus into any climate. With optimal care, citrus trees can bloom and bear fruit multiple times a year, adding both color, fragrance and flavor to your living space.

More Pollinators and More Nitrogen: Planting Clover Cover Crops in Your Orchard The inclusion of a clover cover crop within orchards has gained momentum as a sustainable and beneficial practice. Adding clover to an orchard not only helps your fruit trees thrive, it helps bring in a host of pollinators.

How to Thin Apple Trees Thinning an apple tree involves selectively removing some of the developing fruits to promote better growth, improve fruit quality, and prevent overbearing. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to thin an apple tree:

Getting to Know Your Food Source Following the year 2020, our country continues to face extraordinary challenges. Many of us are turning to backyard food production to both save money and feel secure about our food supply. Stark Bro’s has always taken our mission to educate and support the home grower seriously, and we’re still here for you today.

Small Space Growing Maximize your growing space and your harvest! Not all of us have acres of land to work with but that doesn’t mean you can't have a plentiful harvest right out of your backyard. With proper planning you can create your own edible oasis - whether a patio filled with pots and containers or a modest backyard that you can line with fruit trees and bushes.

Organic Mulches Mulching — which dates back to the Stone Age — didn’t really catch on in the U. S. in the ‘70s. Since then, mulch materials and practices have evolved into a literal science, and mulch has become something of an obsession among some yard enthusiasts.

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Permaculture The word “permaculture” has taken on meanings that include the practical, the ethical and even the magical — but according to the Australian “father of permaculture,” Bill Mollison, it is essentially:

How to Make Apple Vinegar Discover the real health benefits and uses for apple vinegar, and learn how easy it is to make apple vinegar right at home. No cooking required!

Asian-Pear Sauce Recipe Try this Asian-pear sauce recipe - with apples and strawberries - for a tasty twist on apple sauce. This sauce also makes a delightful seasonal gift!

Nut Trees: How Many Years Until Harvest? Nut trees are multi-purpose additions to the landscape. If you wonder how much time nut trees need to mature before you harvest nuts, we have your answer.