An RHS service is helping gardeners identify mystery apples following 2025's bumper harvest - whereby people send fruit in ...

Dreaming of stepping into your backyard to pick fresh, juicy fruit straight from the tree? It might seem like a project ...

After Northern Nevada's wet winter and long, cool spring, local fruit trees are bursting with bumper crops of delicious fresh food. All across the Truckee Meadows, apples, peaches, cherries, plums and ...

Answer: Last week I offered tips for protecting existing fruit trees with bursting buds and open flowers from late frosts (visit https://nmsudesertblooms.blogspot.com and search “frost”). In ...

Pear trees require fertilizer when they are young and when the soil lacks essential nutrients. For young trees, a balanced fertilizer should be applied monthly from spring to late summer to promote ...

Q: If a fruit tree gets infested with borers in the main trunk and seems likely to die, can I cut off the trunk and allow the tree to grow back from this stump? A: Yes, but it depends on the fruit ...

Q: Some critter has been peeling & eating the rind off my lemons & leaving the fruit hanging on the tree. Same thing has happened to another neighbor’s avocados. I don’t know if it’s the neighborhood ...

Fruit trees, whether it's apples, pears, figs, or nectarines, are wonderful to grow for a surplus of your favorite fruit when ...

A new study has unraveled the earliest evidence for domestication of a fruit tree, researchers report. The researchers analyzed remnants of charcoal from the Chalcolithic site of Tel Zaf in the Jordan ...