Grow your own grapefruit tree with these essential tips. An easy-care and long-lived backyard tree, a grapefruit tree (Citrus x paradisi) is prized for its productivity. A mature tree—grapefruit trees ...

Grapefruits are highly popular, healthy fruits with yellow-orange skin and flesh that can be white, pink, or red. Whether enjoyed for breakfast, in juices, smoothies, cocktails, or eaten as snacks, ...

To determine ripeness, taste for sweetness instead of going by the color of the skin. For the best flavor, harvest citrus after the fruit has been exposed to a light frost. Use pruners to cut the ...

Most gardeners (me included) have purchased and planted numerous fruit trees, in fact way too many to count! Admittedly, many of them did not survive more than a couple of growing seasons due to this ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images/Olena Lialina Grapefruits are highly popular, healthy fruits with ...