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Why plant an orange tree? For the sweet stuff: juice. But much of the time you’ll be waiting, and it’s not just your patience that … Read more

When you planted that fig cutting, all the websites said it would bear fruit the next summer. You kept up with the watering, and the … Read more

Wait for the fruit: Plant a lemon tree, and wait for lemons. Water the tree; feed the tree; watch for its leaves. But no lemons? … Read more

Not all avocados follow one track for fruit production. Water your tree, nurture the tree, and behold as the tree grows…but the tree has no … Read more

It takes a long time for a mango tree to produce fruit. Planting a grafted sapling and watching it push leaves for what feels like … Read more

You scatter seed of rye over bare soil, then you watch. And there’s a certain type of worry that sets in: Will something happen to … Read more

The reason you planted the lime tree was this: You longed for juicy summer fruit, and perhaps even a hint of holiday fragrance in winter. … Read more

It feels like planting an olive tree means forever. With shovels, a little sapling, standing there in it. A century-old tree in Tuscany or Crete, … Read more

When you buy A lemon tree (or any other kind), most of us don’t purchase it with landscape design in mind; we expect it to … Read more

Sometime in far future your apple trees will go downhill. First there’s less fruit or it gets smaller. Next branches begins to thicken up and … Read more

Fig trees may look dead when they don’t bear fruit again, but it’s not so simple. More likely what happens is that the roots lives … Read more