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Growing Fruit

Growing fruit is easy with the right guidance. Learn how to grow small fruits, like strawberries, or set up your own fruit tree orchard. We focus on organic orcharding and fruit production for healthy, delicious fruit.

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Watermelon in the Home Garden

Jonathan apples on the tree in our orchard

Jonathan Apples: What Are They and How to Grow Them

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How to Tell When Cantaloupe Is Ripe

cantaloupe growing in the garden

How to Grow Cantaloupe

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Growing Strawberry Plants

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Simple Method for Propagating Peach Trees from Softwood Cuttings

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Can You Grow a Lemon Tree from a Seed?

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Growing Fig Trees in Virginia

Growing Ground Cherries

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What Causes Deformed Strawberries?

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How to Plant a Peach Tree

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Backyard Garden Design Ideas: Landscaping with Edibles

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Growing Figs in My Backyard – an Update

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Easy Ways to Save Cantaloupe Seeds

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Cantaloupe vs Muskmelon – What Is the Difference?

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A sugar maple tree cover in autumn leaves

How to Compost Fall Leaves: Turn Autumn Leaves Into Garden Gold

Every October, the big sugar maple near our garden shed drops its leaves in what feels like a single weekend. One day the yard is green, and the next I’m scrunching through ankle-deep gold and wondering where I left the rake. I used to see that pile as a chore. Now I see it as…

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October Gardening: Tasks and Tips

October is the time of year for pumpkins, squash, scrunching through piles of fall leaves, and enjoying the last of the lovely weather before winter sets in. Here in Virginia, October can go either way — sometimes it stays warm, and sometimes the first frosts move in and finish off the summer vegetables. At this…

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A head of bok choy growing in my garden.

How to Grow Bok Choy

I learned how to grow bok choy through trial and error. Last fall, I noticed some beautiful heads of Chinese cabbage (napa cabbage) at our local farmer’s market. When I asked the proprietor where it was grown, I found it was grown not five miles from my house! Well, that means I could grow all…

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September Gardening: Tasks & Tips

Fall is the time for mums, for pumpkins, and another round of pansies — for soft golden twilights and leaves crunching underfoot. September is the last month here in zones 6 and 7 when the garden is still lush and full. We’re harvesting the last of the tomatoes here at Seven Oaks, my farm near…

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