A woman in a black and white polka-dot blouse holding a basket of pears she picked from a tree. - Kasefoto/Shutterstock Filling your yard with edible plants is a no-brainer. It's always nice to have ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! It is hard to believe this is the last week of April. Hopefully, most of the cold weather is behind us as we experienced two very chilling nights this week ...

Growing a pear tree indoors lets you enjoy fresh fruit at home, even if you don’t live in the right outdoor climate. Choose a small, self-fertile pear variety and plant it in a roomy pot with good ...

HOOD RIVER, Ore. — Backed by a federal grant, Kelsey Galimba, an assistant professor at Oregon State University’s Mid-Columbia Agricultural Research and Extension Center, and others have launched ...

They’re beautiful in bloom, but Callery pear trees crowd out native plants and turn productive open land into woody thickets, writes University of Dayton biology professor Ryan W. McEwan. When people ...

You don’t need a sprawling orchard or years of gardening experience to grow certain types of fruit trees. Many of the most ...

As new varieties of apples have increased their presence in Washington orchards and on the nation’s grocery store shelves, pear growers are slowly but surely expanding their offerings. With most of ...

Q. I have an Asian pear that I planted several years ago but it has never fruited. This spring it had lots of blooms, but it still doesn’t look like it has set any fruit. Can you tell me what is wrong ...