When choosing a fruit tree for your yard, one of the most important things to consider is whether the tree is self-pollinating or cross-pollinating. Cross-pollinating trees need a neighboring ...

Growing your own fruit is both rewarding and challenging. There's an art to getting the growing environment right for your fruit trees so they can produce plenty of juicy fruit. Pomegranate trees ...

Some fruit trees do not require cross-pollination to reliably produce fruit. These are called self-fruitful or self-pollinating plants, and they will produce well even if only one is planted.

Self-pollinating plants include peach, nectarine, fig, citrus, muscadine varieties that produce perfect flowers, bunch grape, strawberry and blackberry. Blueberry bushes are partially self ...

Even self-pollinating plants do better in pairs. All fruit and vegetables require pollination, which is the transfer of pollen from the stamen of a male flower to the stigma of a female flower.

Ben Young of Young’s Greenhouse shares his passion for fruit trees, tips for planting, and how his orchard grew from just one ...

Benefits of Hand Pollination. Fruit trees that have no natural access to pollinators ... “Some, like figs or citrus, can often self-pollinate, or don’t require insect pollination at all, ...