"Heat mats help everything wake up," Rick Van Duyvendyk said on this week's Garden Talk segment. "Bottom heat makes plants ...

Homegrown cherries taste just as good as their blossoms look.

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

The temperatures in February this year remained all time high, around 13.7°C above normal, which triggered premature blooming ...

Join us for these great gardening talks and get your questions answered afterward. Talks will be held outdoors on our parcel. Most will last about 45 minutes. Use our free Plant Daycare for your ...

Next time you enjoy a juicy pomegranate, save some seeds to grow your own tree.

By this time of year, Richard Lial’s Escalon peach trees – bursting with pink-white blossoms – should have been pruned. Soon the blooms would need spraying, and he would feed all 105 acres with the ...

Apples, plums, and other fruit trees don’t need as much fertilizer as fast-growing vegetables that complete their entire lifecycle in a single season. However, fruit trees that are growing slowly or ...

The ground has thawed and is being seeded, and fruit trees are budding in the Shuswap region. Just off Highway 1, at the top of the hill in Salmon Arm, B.C., the DeMille orchard is more than a week ...

The late Robin Williams famously said, “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party.’” For gardeners, it’s easy to understand the sentiment — with bulbs bursting into bloom, flowering cherries and ...

No fruit embodies the essence of warmer weather quite like the peach, particularly when it is harvested from one's own garden ...

Fruit trees are wonderful, but they require a lot of space to thrive. If you're restricted to a patio or small back yard, consider citrus you can grow in a pot.