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 ...

You know you've been tempted. You see a ripe piece of fruit overhanging from a tree on someone else's property, you long to pluck it from the plant and sample the goods. But behind the allure of that ...

It's getting to be that time of year: Apples are growing, blackberries have ripened – and pretty soon, you'll be able to find piles of smashed, rotten, unpicked fruit on a city sidewalk or in a ...

Most backyard pear trees never reach their true potential, not because of poor soil or lack of sunshine, but because of neglect with the shears. Without intervention, branches crowd together, blocking ...

One of my favorite things to do this time of the year is to pick an apple right off the tree and eat while walking through the garden. Unfortunately, my old apple tree is in it's last years. I have ...

In most areas, the law says the owner of a tree is entitled to any fruit or flowers that grow from it even if they fall off. As the springtime weather in New Jersey gets warmer and warmer, homeowners ...

A tree whose trunk is on the neighbors' property belongs to them as well as any fruit it bears. As the springtime weather in New Jersey gets warmer and warmer, homeowners with large trees in their ...

It's getting to be that time of year: Apples are growing, blackberries have ripened – and pretty soon, you'll be able to find piles of smashed, rotten, unpicked fruit on a city sidewalk or in a ...