If you're growing fruit trees, then harvesting the (literal) fruits of your labor is the most exciting part. To speed that ...

If you have fruit trees, now’s the time to be on the lookout for codling moths. This is the time of year — mid-March to early ...

Espaliered fruit trees aren't only beautiful, they're functional. Providing food for humans and wildlife, this growing method ...

Spring-bearing strawberry plants that were set out this spring should have blossoms pinched off. New plants have a limited ...

If left to their own devices, most apple trees grow into large, globe-shaped trees, with the best fruit forming on the tree’s ...

Depending on the size and variety of the pear tree, expect it to bear fruit between three to seven years of age. “You can ...

It’s easiest to accomplish this while trees are young and have yet to bear fruit. The goal ... upward while keeping those that grow outward. Apple: The modified central leader technique is ...

If you love fresh fruit but don't have much space, many dwarf fruit trees are available that fit well in today’s compact ...

The fact that apples grown from seedling trees are extremely tart and basically inedible — as opposed to cloned or grafted ...

Onalaska High School natural resources students had an opportunity Wednesday to learn a practice utilized by fruit growers for thousands of years: tree grafting. "We're basically making clones," said ...

Q: My dad helped me plant a couple of young apple trees in my backyard last weekend and so far, so good. After we finished I said the only thing I had left to do was paint the trunks white.

Apples are the most common homegrown fruit in Northern regions. Most apple ... of the tree, with strong side branches, called “scaffold” branches, radiating outward. On young trees, if there ...