About 150 million people are under cold weather advisories and extreme cold warnings in the eastern portion of the U.S.

In advance of the fruit tree pruning demonstration, here is a brief reminder of the principles of fruit tree pruning. Proper pruning shapes the tree to allow good sun exposure. This encourages optimal ...

Winter is the prime season for planting and pruning fruit trees, and a little thoughtful work now pays off in healthier trees and better fruit later. When pruning mature trees, […] ...

Step into this North Carolina ghost town and uncover haunting stories, abandoned buildings, and history frozen in time.

Floridians are digging through the back of their closets for heavy coats this weekend as an aggressive blast of Arctic air ...

The Midwest and South have been getting major winter storms for several days, and a giant cyclone forecast in the Atlantic ...

It’s always useful to keep in mind that when we buy a certain variety of fruit tree we are the beneficiaries of clonal propagation; that is, the fruit we harvest is coming from canopy growth (called a ...

Something you need to know is that fruit on fruit trees only grows off of new growth. So remember this as you start to prune ...

Prune these in winter: Birch trees, willows, maples, fruit trees, some hydrangeas, shrub hibiscus, twig dogwoods, shade trees and ornamental grasses. Trees that ooze sap during the spring are best ...

North Carolina is blessed with a Goldilocks climate, where we can grow a lot of different plants and crops with just a little bit of effort.

It sounded like pistol shots as the area’s citrus trees split open when sap inside them froze. The cash crop was destroyed, ...

Since the fig forms its fruit on shoots that start to grow in the spring, it can be radically pruned in the winter without affecting the following year’s two crops. The first crop starts to grow in ...