Growing, blooming and fruiting in the heat of summer, enduring the cold of winter and the fury of hurricanes, mangoes have made this land their home — the warm, southern extreme of South Florida ...

Excess irrigation will increase the tree’s vulnerability to disease and decrease the quality of its fruit. Overwatering can kill a mango tree. When the trees are grown in harmony with their ...

Julie asks: My mango tree put out tons of fruit last year. This year’s flowers are fewer, and they look terrible. The fruit that does start forming is dropping off. What’s going on and what can I do ...

Blueberries do best with an acid fertilizer. Now (Feb.) is the time to fertilize fruit trees and bushes. Photo courtesy of the LSU AgCenter Fertilize grape vines, hardy fruit trees, such as apple, ...

Many of us spend an inordinate amount of time tending our lawns and gardens while practically ignoring our trees. And that's too bad, because healthy, properly trimmed trees can dramatically enhance ...

Question. One of the trunks of my ligustrum and some additional limbs are dead. I prune them off when noted and apply a fungicide. What else can I do? Answer. Some young but mainly older ligustrums ...

If you, like so many of us, can’t get enough of that glorious golden globe of summer, the mango, you’re in luck. Turns out that, among all tropical fruit trees, mangoes are the easiest to grow. “It’s ...