Yes, you can grow citrus in Colorado. 🌿🍊Think lemons, limes, and oranges don’t belong indoors along the Front Range? Think again. With bright light, warmth, regular feeding, and well-drained soil, ...

No garden? You can still grow your own delicious fruit—just pick cultivars suitable for growing indoors. These are the ones ...

Overall, my gardens did well last summer despite the lack of rain – largely because of all that sunshine. Most of us had a ...

California’s Norfolk Healthy Produce created lots of fanfare and a wild first year when it debuted The Purple Tomato in 2023. It was the world’s first bioengineered vegetable crop marketed directly to ...

It was supposed to be really sweet and hardier to cold than normal. I do not remember the variety. We had a hard freeze in ...

Instead of spitting out orange seeds and discarding them, it's possible to grow your own trees. Germination and planting is ...

Strolling in my neighborhood the other day, I saw two trees with autumn foliage that I thought would have made the most compelling combination had they been planted side by side. One was a ginkgo tree ...

Driving west Friday morning on Riverside’s Arlington Avenue, I see the two-story boxy shape, a peak at the top, from a block away. Momentarily I think it’s a church. Then I recognize what I’m seeing.

Here's a walk through our backyard showing some different varieties of mandarins and oranges we grow. Along the way I give some tips about the varieties and how I get the best out of my trees such as ...

The West Orange Lorax, also known as West Orange resident Joseph Nalieth. At the top of the Second Watchung Ridge, 20 miles west of Weehawken, sits 120 acres of forest that’s never been paved. There ...

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