Simple 1′ x 2′ air prune beds. Have you ever thought about starting plants for your own food forest, or growing trees and shrubs with the intention to plant them out somewhere else? Have you ever ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Do you have an "oops" tree in your yard? An oops ...

Planting a tree may be easier than you think. Just follow these digging, watering and planting tips to ensure your tree grows ...

Winter can be a tree's toughest test, especially when it's the new kid on the block. Luckily, a few simple additions will ...

A person prepares to transplant a tree in their garden. Photo courtesy Getty Images. Welcome to our tree column, “Ask your local arborist.” Each month, arborists from the Davey Tree Expert Company in ...

We don’t often think about the roots of trees until there is a problem. A forester friend of mine called it a “fencepost mentality.” Being underground, they are often out of sight out of mind. However ...

Trees not only improve the beauty of our landscapes, but they provide a critical function for our health, too. These leafy lovlies remove carbon dioxide from the air, and give us life-critical oxygen ...

Face it, it happens at least once in our gardening lives: The plant we thought would be perfect here really would look better there. So, if this is your dilemma, there is a tried-and-true method for ...

Question: We live in Tippecanoe county and need to transplant a tulip tree that is 2-3’ tall. Could you please tell me when the optimal time would be to transplant? I have read to transplant in the ...

We got a couple of great viewer questions regarding early season gardening and Mark Saidnawey from Pemberton Farms helps us out with the answers... When is the best time to transplant shrubs/trees? If ...

If you are planning on transplanting a tree this fall, now is the time to root prune. When root pruning trees, a good rule of thumb is for every inch in diameter of tree, you want 12 inches of root ...