Aug. 31—There's a cornucopia in Orlando Romero's Nambé backyard, and the feast has reached all the way to Santa Fe. To reap the rewards of an overzealous apricot tree, Romero invited eight ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Stone fruit are fruit with one large pit, or stone, at their center. Traditional stone fruit are apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums; novel hybrids aprium, pluot, and plumcot have been ...

Just because it's cold outside doesn't mean you can't work in your garden. In fact, planting this early often results in more ...

Mechanical harvesting of fruit trees represents a transformative approach to modern orchard management. By applying controlled vibrational excitations, these systems selectively detach ripe fruit ...

Scientists have shown for the first time the widespread harm caused in Peru by cutting down the palm tree Mauritia flexuosa in order to harvest its fruit. The scientists examined where and why the ...