With some plants, pruning is optional. This is not true of many fruit trees. Not only must you prune them for fruit ...

If left unchecked, canker can kill off a tree in a single season and spread to others, too. But there are steps you can take ...

Anyone who has apple trees, pear trees, plums, cherries, blackberries, blackcurrants or grapevines in particular is being ...

Anyone who has apple or pear trees in their garden is being warned they need to check them in January for a potentially fatal ...

Olive trees require full sun for fruit production and overall health. Select a location that gets a minimum of six hours of ...

Papaya trees thrive in fertile, well-drained soil with a slightly acidic to neutral pH (5.5-7). Adding organic matter such as ...

You don’t need to build a time machine to go back to the days before Silicon Valley was Silicon Valley. Sandwiched between a ...

A major grower said this week it was abandoning its citrus growing operations, reflecting the headwinds Florida's signature ...

They’ve located genes responsible for tolerance to the wood decay fungus in the genus Armillaria. They’ve convinced Southeast peach growers to plant new trees on berms. And they’ve developed a ...

Once new buds begin to open and tiny deformed leaves unfurl in the spring, it's too late to manage the disease. Fortunately, peach leaf curl can be easily treated with a fungicide during the dormant ...

B.J. Thurlby, president of Northwest Cherries, recaps the 2024 cherry season to kick off the 82nd annual Cherry Institute Jan ...

What is Dormant Oil & When Do I Apply It? This week’s column comes from a reader who is interested in learning more about ...