Growing fruit trees in your yard also lets you enjoy produce at peak freshness and freeze part of your crop for later, taking a bite out of your grocery bill. The main challenge many would-be ...

Tate recommends this easy-to-grow and heavy-producing tree for Northern climes, as it requires 800 to 1000 chilling hours to break dormancy and produce good fruit yields.

There’s a chapter on how to grow fruit trees in containers, including recommended varieties such as North Star cherry and Little Princess pear, both natural dwarfs.

Truth be told, growing fruit trees and bushes in a container is very difficult. I’d rate it at the top of the labor and expertise scale — even above the care a rosarian puts into cultivating ...