Common irrigation problems range from too little water where it is needed, to too much where it is not needed, writes ...

Michigan’s native pawpaw trees produce a fruit that looks like a mango and tastes like a banana. Sometimes called the ...

I just planted a young Louisiana sweet orange tree I was given last October. The tree is covered with small white buds, which ...

By this time of year, Richard Lial’s Escalon peach trees – bursting with pink-white blossoms – should have been pruned. Soon ...

No fruit embodies the essence of warmer weather quite like the peach, particularly when it is harvested from one's own garden ...

A popular product used by home fruit-tree growers in days past was a spray known as “dormant oil.” Gardeners would apply the ...

This story was originally published by The Modesto Focus. By this time of year, Richard Lial’s Escalon peach trees – bursting ...

The Scripps College Olive Harvest tradition was postponed last fall, despite its biannual schedule, due to a lack of rainfall ...

Spring means everything is in bloom...including the odorous Bradford pear tree. What North Carolinians need to know.

Horticultural oils can be used as a dormant spray on fruit trees to proactively control overwintering insects and diseases. Dormant oil sprays should be applied in late March or April before the ...

Join our Northern Illinois Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop with Alexis R. Barnes, Local Food Systems and Small Farms Educator, to learn how — and when — to properly prune apple, pear, peach, and cherry ...

Despite February’s often cool, damp, and dreary days, it is a harbinger that spring is only a month away and can inspire North Bay gardeners to begin planning, preparing and getting an early start on ...