Tom Karwin: Selecting fruit trees for your yard

Our weather continues to be cool, so February is still a good time to plant bare root roses and trees—especially fruit trees, for their productivity. Garden centers have good inventories of both kinds of garden treasures.

Pear fruit trees best Bay Area bet

January is the start of fruit-tree time, a brief window of opportunity for gardeners to snatch up bare-root seedlings at bargain prices. But if low-grade soil is keeping you from jumping on the backyard-orchard...

Things To Do: Make your own fruit trees Sunday at Scion Exchange

Learn how to make your own grafted fruit trees Sunday at the annual Scion Exchange, presented by the

Home and garden calendar for the week of Jan. 21

Grafting demonstrations and more than 100 varieties of fruit trees will be featured at the scion exchange hosted by the California Rare Fruit Growers, Sacramento Chapter.

The California Cook: Getting creative with citrus

Now that trees are raining down bushels, it's time to peel, slice, squeeze and experiment. I'm writing this column having just spent an hour with our local fruit gleaner picking tangelos from my tree. We must have pulled at least 40 pounds. Earlier in the day, I'd picked an additional three dozen pieces of fruit for recipe testing. And the danged tree still looks like it hasn't been touched.