Gardening season is on its way and you may have questions as you prepare for spring. To ask one, simply go to the OSU Extension website, type in your question and include the county where you live. A ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The squirrels have already begun to sort through the too-heavy clusters of golden delicious apples at my friend Vicky’s house, choosing the fruit that holds ...

SAVING SUMMER: The fruit and liquor unite to make downright dreamy preserves I'm lucky enough to have a large, mature plum tree in my backyard. Unluckily, though, it's an ornamental plum, producing ...

My Italian plum tree was loaded this year. If you have a plum tree, you know how bountiful it can be. These small, sweet plums are perfect for drying into prunes but also for baking. I love making ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There’s a ridiculous level of anxiety going on in my garden involving four types of plums and a commitment to try not to show up at my friend Gerald’s house ...

Since childhood, the plum has been my favorite fruit. I can still remember the anticipation of devouring my grandmother's plum "leather." Every summer, we would watch her make it and savor its ...

Dear Helen: We have four Italian prune plum trees in our garden, already mature when we bought the house 22 years ago. The plums are delicious although racoons knock most of them down before they can ...

Last year I promised my son, Nat, a Mirabelle plum tree for his birthday. By the time I got around to placing the order, the nursery had no Mirabelles and the other varieties we wanted were out of ...

It’s been taunting us for weeks: The Italian plum tree in the vacant lot behind my sister and brother-in-law’s house is weighed down with plums that have been turning far too slowly from green to pink ...