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5 Fast-Growing Fruit Trees You Should Be Planting In The Fall

Most gardeners wait until spring to plant fruit trees, but these varieties actually thrive when planted now and reward you with fruit much sooner.

Pittsburghers preserving pawpaw trees, some hope it will lead to more zebra swallowtail butterflies

The deciduous tree supports the zebra swallowtail butterfly — a species that has all but disappeared from the Pittsburgh ...
Mountain Xpress

Gardening with Xpress: Figs and pawpaws are all the rage

The beautiful autumn sunlight dances off gorgeously crimson sourwood leaves. Little radish plants look cute as they grow quickly. And this is my last gardening feature for 2025, but I’ll be back in ...
Yahoo

The Unique Fruit Tree You Can Even Grow In Clay Soil

A variety of trees grow in a suburban back yard. - Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography/Getty Images Gardening in clay soil comes with challenges. Because of how sticky and heavy the clay is, the ...
KOAT Albuquerque

What’s a pawpaw? See where the largest fruit native to the US grows

NEW ENGLAND FRUIT. I TYPICALLY CARRY SEEDS WITH ME, AND IF I FIND A PLACE THAT’S LIKELY, THEN I PLANT SOME SEEDS THERE. AND YOU KNOW, HOPE THEY’LL SPROUT. TED. ROCHESTER IS A MODERN DAY JOHNNY ...

Time is ripe for a pawpaw festival in New England (The Republican Editorials)

This is the land of grow local, buy local, where the agriculture business has been one of the only expanding parts of the ...
The Vindicator

Pittsburghers seek to preserve pawpaw trees

Joe Kostka searches for ripe pawpaws in his home orchard where he's grown the native fruit for 21 years, in Natrona Heights, Pa,, Sept. 30, 2025. (Quinn Glabicki/Pittsburgh's Public Source via AP) On ...