If you're dreaming of bountiful homegrown harvests, you might assume that spring is the ideal time to plant fruit trees. However, November is actually the best time to get those trees in the ground.

Californian redwoods, known interchangeably as sequoia trees, are some of the oldest and tallest trees on Earth. Sequoias can grow anywhere between 180 and 250 feet tall. (That’s around the height of ...