One of the things I have learned over years of hiking countless mountain miles is the ‘trail principle’. When hoping to get ...

Transplant is a word used a couple of ways in gardening. It can be a noun or a verb depending on how it is applied. When used as a noun, “transplant” is what we call young, often seed-grown plants ...

To move a tree or shrub, start in the autumn by root pruning, which cuts larger feeder roots. The plant sends out new, more fibrous roots in the soil mass for the plant, which should be replanted in ...

Rows of trees for sale in a nursery - Yinyang/Getty Images Patience is a virtue, right? But when you're a gardener waiting for the tree you lovingly picked out and planted to produce fruit, your ...

THIS is a book of some two hundred and thirty odd pages, eleven pages of which are devoted to a description of the tree-lifter and of its advantages in transplanting large trees. The principle of ...

Add it all up and pest outbreaks have left Minnesota with quite a lot of dead trees, useless lumber and dried-out and wasted stands, which, if left to rot, will become one large fire hazard. But there ...

REMER, Minn. — Judging by the view from a gravel road north of Remer, Minnesota, the forest is fine. Maybe some dry patches in spots, sure. But nothing that would grab your attention as you drive by.