Prickly pear fruit is edible, and tasty at that! However, it's covered in dangerous spines, so you need to know the ...

Invasive plants, including edible fruit trees, are a problem for home gardeners and the entire ecosystem. Here's how to ...

You can grow cherries indoors with an eye toward fruit, beauty, or both. You should look for dwarf and semi-dwarf varieties ...

A fruit tree guild sets all your plants up for optimal growth by creating a mini-ecosystem. Imagine growing your own backyard fruit orchard, but without having to do much in the way of pest control, ...

Avocado, guava, jaboticaba, mango and starfruit — though their flavors are exotic, they can easily be grown here in the home garden. These tropicals tolerate temperatures to around 27 degrees ...

Luke Jesperson stands on a ladder in a backyard in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, using a picking tool to pluck green apples from a tall tree. But it’s not his tree or his backyard. Jesperson is ...

BOULDER, Colorado — The fall harvest season is underway in Colorado, with apple trees full of ripe fruit. Trees can produce hundreds of pounds of fruit, which can be too much for some homeowners.

Apple, peach, plum and pear trees in the Durango area and the Animas watershed have been well watered over the summer, and it shows in the amount of fruit they are producing, according to members of ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an ...

Susan Stringfellow’s house in Los Angeles turns heads with its elegant co-mingling of solid and soft, stark and sensual, modern and primitive. In that spirit, when she and Nancy Goslee Power revived ...