Fruits for the Home Garden

Learn how to select and care for small fruits and tree fruits, and prevent and or manage their problems in the home garden.

Selecting fruits for a home garden

• Growing Small Fruits
• Buying and Planting Fruit Trees
• Fruit Plant Pollination 

Small Fruits

Blueberries

• Growing Blueberries in a Home Garden
• Growing Blueberries in Containers
• Watering, Fertilizing, Harvesting Blueberries
• Pruning Blueberries
• Mummy Berry Disease of Blueberry
• Blueberry Insect Pests
• Blueberry Problem not caused by Diseases or Insects

Currants, Gooseberries, Elderberries 

• Growing Gooseberries, Currants, Elderberries

Grapes

• Growing Grapes in a Home Garden
• Watering, Fertilizing, Harvesting, and Spray Schedule for Grapes
• Training and Pruning Grapes
• Grape Diseases
• Grape Insect Pests
• Grape Problems not caused by Diseases or Insects

Raspberries and Blackberries

• Growing Raspberries and Blackberries in a Home Garden
• Watering, Fertilizing, Harvesting Raspberries and Blackberries
• Training and Pruning Raspberries and Blackberries
• Raspberry and Blackberry Diseases
• Raspberry and Blackberry Insect Pests
• Raspberry and Blackberry Problem not caused by Diseases or Insects

Strawberries

• Growing Strawberries in a Home Garden
• Watering, Fertilizing, Harvesting Strawberries
• Renovation and Overwintering Strawberries
• Strawberry Diseases
• Strawberry Insect Pests

Tree Fruits

Apples

• Growing Apple Trees in a Home Garden
• Tree Fruit Purchasing and Planting
• Watering, Fertilizing, Harvesting, Spray Schedule Apples
• Training and Pruning Apple and Pear Trees
• Apple and Pear Diseases
• Apple and Pear Insect Pests
• Apple Problems not caused by Diseases or Insects

Figs

• Growing Figs in Maryland

Pears

• Growing Pear Trees in a Home Garden
• Watering, Fertilizing, Harvesting, Spray Schedule Pears
• Apple and Pear Diseases
• Apple and Pear Insect Pests

Stone fruits: Peaches, cherries, plums

• Growing Peach and Cherry Trees in a Home Garden
• Watering, Fertilizing, Harvesting, Spray Schedule Peaches and Cherries
• Training and Pruning Peach and Cherry Trees
• Peach and Cherry Insect Pests
• Peach and Cherry Problems not caused by Diseases or Insects
• Peach and Cherry Diseases

Prevent and manage problems with fruits

• Fruit Problems: Prevention and Management
• Home Fruit Disease and Pest Prevention Spray Schedule
• Fruit Diseases
• Fruit Insects 
• Fruit Problems Caused by Nonliving Factors
• Fruit Problems Caused by Wildlife

Care and maintenance of fruit plants

• Fertilizing Fruits
• Pruning and Thinning Fruit Plants
• Storing Garden Fruits and Vegetables