More: National Gardening Day 2025: How to prep your garden, what to plant now in your Texas zone When is it OK to pick fruit from someone else's tree, bush or vine? In 2023, a man in San Francisco ...

In this week's Gardening 101, CBS 11's Jeff Ray shows you some recommendations for fruit trees to grow in your backyard.

They are typically grown as evergreen shrubs but are also popular as ornamental trees with dense, dark green leaves and showy purple flowers that bloom in the spring. USDA Growing Zones: 7b to 10b ...

Fig trees are known to grow 15 to 30 feet, but I have witnessed several trees twice this dimension and greater! Fertilize three times a year prior to August. Figs prefer a pH of 6.5.

Many trees, but especially fruit trees, need cool temperatures between 32 and 45 degrees, which are ideal for accruing chill hours. Chill hours begin after the initial freeze each fall, which is ...

I always ask folks if they saw any insects working the flowers while their trees were in bloom. Of course, spraying fruit trees with any kind of insecticide, organic or otherwise, is a huge no-no ...

Gardening 101: Fruit trees 02:09. NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) - There is a research garden in Garland that is not like any in the state. The facility is at the District One Dallas County Road ...