MINTER: Pruning fruit trees is fun and easy

You really don’t have to be an expert to prune fruit trees. All it takes is a little common sense and a few helpful hints.

Order those fruit trees and berry bushes

The Swain County Cooperative Extension is now taking orders for 3- to 4-foot tall apple, pear and peach trees, plus three-year-old blueberry, two-year-old grape and thornless blackberry varieties.

Gardening: Fruit trees ... the bear essentials

Blossom and fruit drop and fruit splitting are fairly common problems for fruit trees. While losing blossoms and small fruit from your fruit trees can be disturbing it is usually a natural process.

NSU plants trees as part of Louisiana Arbor Month

Northwestern State University partnered with the city of Natchitoches and the LSU AgCenter to plant fruit trees at L.P. Vaughn Elementary in celebration of Louisiana Arbor Month. The city donated two pear trees as a gift to enhance an on-going school gardening initiative coordinated through Northwestern State’s College of Education and Human Development. L.P. Vaughn is Northwestern State’s ...

Bare-root fruit trees

Bare-root season is not just for roses.