Successfully maintaining fruit trees in your yard requires meticulous planning, especially in terms of knowing which plants ...

Each spring, the orchardist is hopeful for good flowering and pollination. This will determine the amount of fruit the tree will start to develop. I am hopeful that this season ...

With a quickly moving spring, many of the fruit trees in our area have already dropped their flower petals and started ...

depending on disease and insect pests that may be present. While it is tempting to plant fruit trees and not apply chemical control measures, it is often impractical, and the resulting fruit crop may ...

We definitely have peach tree borers in our nectarine tree. The trunk is pretty much encircled by the sap oozing just above the ground level. What insecticide should I apply to the trunk and saturate ...

Fruit growers in Washington may have a more reliable way to detect Little Cherry Disease in their trees. Washington State ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was almost a year ago that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal ...

If you have fruit trees and are hoping for an abundant harvest, it is time to act. It won’t be long now before buds break and begin to flower, closing ...

My own turn came when I left a peach ripening a little too long in the fruit bowl, only to walk into the kitchen and discover a cloud of little flying pests hovering over the bowl and crawling all ...

In apple trees, diseases such as apple scab and powdery mildew thrive in humid, shaded conditions, while insects like aphids and codling moths prefer sheltered areas to hide in. Pruning increases the ...

Free-standing fruit trees or bush trees, such as those grown in an orchard should be pruned when they're dormant, in winter. Trained trees, such as espaliers, cordons, pyramids and fans should be ...