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Basics of Fruit Trees

by Monica Patrick

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With the proper care and attention, a fruit tree could provide delicious fruits for decades. Most fruit trees also have beautiful flowers. Use this guide to learn more about fruit trees.

  • About Fruit Trees

    Growing fruit trees in a garden landscape can add beauty, value and interest to a homeowner's property and provide an edible harvest. Read More

  • How to Identify Fruit Trees

    Fruit trees are diverse, and fairly easy to identify by the fruit that they bear, characteristics of the tree and how it grows. Once you know what characteristics to look Read More

  • How to Care for Fruit Trees

    Want to enjoy the taste and nutrition of organic fruit without the outrageous prices? Money shouldn't be an issue when it comes to your health, and that's why an increasing Read More

  • How to Prune Dormant Fruit Trees

    Pruning dormant trees involves not pruning too early in the winter, pruning only on dry days to prevent fungal problems and not pruning in the middle of the branch. Pruning Read More

  • How to Use Up Excess Fruit From Your Fruit Trees

    We all love having fruit trees; but what should you do with all the excess? We feel wasteful leaving it to rot on the ground. Plus, giving it away is getting old. Here are Read More

  • Kinds of Fruit Trees

    Fruit trees come in myriad styles and sizes. Both full-size and dwarf trees yield fruit, and each can live for up to 20 years. The harvest times for fruit trees depend on Read More

  • How to Organically Fertilize Fruit Trees

    Using organic soil fertilizer will ensure that your fruit tree has all of the nutrients it needs to grow the most delicious fruit possible. Learn how to organically Read More

  • When to Fertilize Fruit Trees

    Growing fruit trees is a popular form of gardening because the trees provide fresh fruit to eat, cook with and preserve for jams and jellies. Properly caring for fruit Read More

  • How to Fertilize Fruit Trees

    Fertilizing fruit trees should only be done after the tree has established itself for a few months after planting, at which point the fertilizer should be sprinkled evenly Read More

  • How to Prune Dwarf Fruit Trees

    To prune dwarf fruit trees, trim back about one-third of the growth each year during the dormant period and make angled cuts 2 inches out from the trunk to avoid damage or Read More

  • How to Grow Fruit Trees Indoors

    Want to grow lemons, grapefruit, tangerines, oranges and limes but live in Minnesota (or similar climate)? It is not impossible. It is not even very difficult if you plant Read More

  • Deer Proofing Fruit Trees

    Are deer eating your trees? Learn how to deer proof your fruit trees so they don't get eaten by pests in this free online gardening and tree care instructional video. Read More

  • Gardening Products for Fruit Trees

    From blood meal to soil activator, learn what gardening products are best to use for growing fruit trees in this free online gardening and tree cultivation instructional Read More

  • How to Winterize Fruit Trees

    Winterizing a fruit tree includes wrapping the trunk, protecting the feeder roots with mulch, minimizing its water intake and stop fertilizing the tree earlier in the Read More

  • When to Spray Fruit Trees

    The best time to spray fruit trees is in the fall and winter when the fruit has died back, and any kind of vegetable or olive oil is best to kill any bugs or worms that Read More

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