Fruit trees, whether it's apples, pears, figs, or nectarines, are wonderful to grow for a surplus of your favorite fruit when it's harvest time. Growing fruit trees requires space, time, and proper ...

Winter fruit tree pruning starts as soon as leaves drop from the trees. It’s easier to see the branching structure of the tree — I call it the tree’s “architecture” — after the leaves are gone. This ...

Garrett Sorber, co-owner of Radical Roots Nursery, a fruit and flower nursery in Maine ...

Q: I have a 9-year old apricot tree that produced a bumper crop of delicious apricots each year. However, this year there is an abundance of fruit set but not many leaves. Unless the number of leaves ...

Apricot trees were sprayed with 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid at concentrations of 50, 100, and 200 ppm on May 22, 1965, when spur leaves were fully expanded. Some effects of 2, 4,5-T were studied ...

Question: I have a 'Bartlett' pear tree, and this year I have a lot of small black spots on the fruit. What causes that? Answer: This sounds like scab, a fungal disease caused by Venturia pirina.

My crab apples look terrible this year and have lost a lot of their leaves. The remaining leaves have spots on them. What can I do to help my trees? — Tom Halvorson, Barrington Many crab apples in the ...