To prune a tree, I have followed the Al Gore method, who as vice president helped reduce the federal workforce and ...

Apple trees aren’t easy to grow because they need consistent care, including precisely timed spraying and pruning, to ...

Recent research has pinpointed how a difference in rootstock and scion cold hardiness is leading to compromised trees post overwintering.

If you’re thinking of planting for pollinators this spring, I will be teaching a one-hour class at the Columbus Public ...

You might notice strange-looking bands on fruit trees in New York. If you do see one, leave it there. Someone put it there ...

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

People graft apple trees for many reasons. The main one is that apple trees planted from seed almost always produce fruit with inferior flavor to the fruit from the parent ...

Growing up amid some of northern Idaho’s most fertile land, Ross Hall remembers with a chuckle his preparations for growing ...

Pruning is an essential part of fruit tree maintenance, but doing it wrong can spell trouble for your trees. Here are the key ...

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

The recent warm weather has been a nice treat, but fruit farmers across Michigan are growing concerned. They are worried budding could begin too soon—and damage their ...

Her latest paper, published in Plant Biology, examines how sweet cherries, like many fruit trees, use a natural survival strategy called supercooling to protect undeveloped flower buds during ...