Pruning in the dormant season is absolutely necessary for trees that form fruit on new wood. Nectarines and peaches are two ...

Before picking up a fruit tree for your yard ... as well as European plums (Prunus domestica). 'Golden Delicious' apples, unlike most apple trees, are also partially self-fruitful.

However, finding and buying the right fruit tree for your yard is like comparing apples and oranges—or cherries and figs.

"Any one 'mother' tree can produce a broad array of similar-looking apples whose seeds will produce 'daughter' apple trees that have completely different shapes . . . and create fruit with utterly ...

Most of the trees—apple ... fruit innovators could be ripped off in several ways. In the rapidly expanding nursery industry, a good deal of seedling stock was sold by small nurseries and tree ...

The profusion of tangled branches on an unpruned apple tree can look confusing to a beginner. Get started by making six basic pruning cuts.

One method that keeps squirrels away from fruit trees is a squirrel baffle. These are cone-shaped or cylindrical barriers ...

“Another popular choice is dwarf peach trees, which begin fruiting in only 1 to 2 years through proper pruning and grow to ...

If you have not had the time to prune your fruit trees in ... more sunlight to reach the tree’s canopy, which helps reduce disease and insect pressure. In apple trees, diseases such as apple ...