Aim to fertilize fruit trees in spring or early summer. This timing allows the trees to absorb nutrients they can use for new growth and fruit production, says Lauren St. Germain Kidd, the owner of ...

Boost your citrus harvest with the right fertilizer at the right time. To get a bumper crop of fruit on your citrus trees, you must provide fertilizer at the right times. These trees are heavy feeders ...

Growing lemon trees in containers isn't hard if you give them light, water, and good soil. Here are some tips for growing and ...

Newly planted container-grown trees need daily watering for several weeks, then twice weekly through the first summer and fall, and weekly for the following two summers. Ball and burlap trees require ...

If your lawn is dried out or dormant, it is best just to keep it mowed to control the weeds and postpone any fertilization ...

While it’s tempting to treat garlic as a plant-and-forget crop, it will only reward you richly if you treat it well. A clove planted in the fall won’t magically turn into a fat bulb by summer unless ...

A large tree blocks a Palo Alto street after a wind storm. Courtesy Carol Hubenthal. Welcome to our tree column, “Ask your local arborist.” Each month, arborists from the Davey Tree Expert Company in ...

Editor’s note: This column was produced before Gene Wengert died in 2025. It is printed here in memoriam. Q. Why do we here in Virginia see so many eastern red cedar trees along fence lines? Do they ...