A person touches the bottom of a pear as it hangs on the tree. - Ingwervanille/Getty Images If you haven't been fortunate enough to grow and care for a pear tree in your backyard, you might not know ...

I also do not care that the pear harvest started early this year, except inasmuch as it means the pear-eating season also started early. Most Bartletts have already been harvested, and other varieties ...

Many homeowners enjoy growing their own fruit, but they have also learned that they require a lot of care to approach the quality of products obtained from a commercial orchard or grocery store.

I have been wanting to order some butterfly bushes, wanting to attract more butterflies to my garden. A friend told me these are invasive. Is this true? Butterfly bushes are actually quite invasive, ...

Like many people in Beaver County, I grew up in a house next to my grandparents' home, and like many homes, ours was backed up to a decent-sized patch of woods. If you went in the woods and down the ...