Avocado, guava, jaboticaba, mango and starfruit — though their flavors are exotic, they can easily be grown here in the home garden. These tropicals tolerate temperatures to around 27 degrees ...

Columbus and other early voyagers to the Americas filled their travel journals with breathless descriptions of the tropical fruits they’d never seen before: avocados, papayas, pineapples, soursop, ...

Madeline May, past president of the Bonita Springs Tropical Fruit Club, has over 300 fruit and nut trees around her Fort Myers home. Her 5-acre grove includes lychee trees, mangoes, mulberries, ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Fall can be a great time to plant lettuce. We all need to include some more greens in the diet. Lettuce loves cool temperatures and can withstand a light ...

For many years, a good portion of metro-Houston yards have been planted with citrus, figs, pomegranates, persimmons, pears and a few other types of fruit trees. The quest for growing tropical fruit ...

Pineapples are a versatile fruit that can be used as an ingredient in salads, desserts and even as a controversial pizza topping. Sadly for those longing for a taste of the tropical, this fruit is ...

Dr. Alois Falkenstein put decades of work into breeding and cultivating rare fruits in the Arizona desert, and created a community of like-minded gardeners. Over more than two decades, a small ...

For those dreaming of a backyard brimming with fresh fruit, waiting years for trees to mature can feel like an eternity. But thanks to one orchardist on TikTok, The American Fig Company ...