The pawpaw tree, which produces Ohio's official native fruit, is common throughout the state. Pawpaw fruit tastes like a combination of banana, mango, and pineapple and is harvested in late summer and ...

Compass, Mirabelle, Long John, and Early Golden—they’re not a fleet of ships headed for the high seas. These are actually a few of the plum varieties artist Sam Van Aken worked with while creating his ...

JANE EDMANSON: Boy, what a corker of a summer day it's going to be and that's why it makes sense to get out really early in the garden. And we gardeners with mature fruit trees know that there's some ...

Orcharding requires effort, but the resulting yields of fresh fruit make it all worthwhile. One of the most important aspects of growing fruit trees is pruning. This applies to large commercial and ...

One morning last summer I was sitting at my desk, staring idly out the window, when a woman stopped in front of a nectarine tree in my front yard. The fruits were small and still pretty hard, so I had ...