Growing Edibles

Fig trees are popular additions to home gardens for their wide, beautiful foliage and their fruit. Fig trees are capable of growing up to 50 feet tall, and have branches that can spread wider than...

Peaches are truly a juicy jewel of nature. With their sweet smell, soft fuzz and mouthwatering flesh, it's no wonder this fruit has become so popular with home and commercial gardeners. Whether...

California is the citrus capital of the western United States, rivaled only by Florida on the East Coast. California's citrus varietals include tangelo, tangerine, satsuma, mandarin, pixie,...

The kiwi and hardy kiwi are fertile trellising vines that produce copious amounts of kiwifruit. In a single season, a kiwi vine can grow up to 20 feet and produce 50-100 pounds of kiwifruit. Kiwi...

Pruning hot pepper plants helps to ensure a bountiful harvest. When you remove excess leaves or dying appendages, you give the remaining peppers a better chance of thriving because the roots can...

Brown turkey figs are sweet fruits with pinkish flesh. Originating in Provence, the brown turkey is a staple of California's fig crop. The trees bear fruit twice per season, once off of winter...

California peach trees benefit from frequent pruning. The pruning forces the tree to put more growth energy into its fruit rather than leaves. Pruning also reduces shade cover, which affects the...

The goal when pruning a Kwanza cherry is to select branches that grow at wide angles to the main trunk of the tree. Don't over prune a Kwanzan cherry tree: It may never recover. Because they grow...

Calamondins, commonly known as acid or panama oranges and botanically known as Citrus madurensis, are cold hardy fruits that are a result of blending a tangerine with a kumquat. Developed in the...

Peach trees make excellent producers as backyard fruit trees, or as a grove. When properly maintained, peaches grow sweet and abundantly enough to break the tree's branches if they are not picked...

What could be more enjoyable for a gardener than growing a backyard orchard? Fruit trees are a landscapers delight, producing quality fruit for years to come. But fruit trees require proper...

The pomegranate is by nature a bushy plant. It requires lots of pruning and patience to turn it into a tree. Most people let it grow as a bush, but for those who would rather enjoy its beautiful...

Purple plum trees are a pretty way to get luscious fruit to eat. It is easy to prune the tree in such a way so that it will yield maximum fruit capacity. It is easiest to do this from the first...