After a few years of watching and waiting for a peach tree I planted to bear fruit, it finally did this year. Unfortunately, it was unable to produce during those first few years because of peach leaf ...

If you are thinking of planting deciduous fruit trees, now is the time to plan for this project. In the coming weeks, bare-root deciduous fruit trees will be arriving in nurseries. Unfortunately, in ...

Question: Our apple tree normally flowers in late winter but is producing blooms now. Do I fertilize the tree to encourage fruit growth as I would in spring? Answer: Deciduous fruit trees including ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since we are only in February, I’m sure winter is not over yet, but a week of temperatures in the 80s seems unusual even for a ...

Winter won’t be over anytime soon, and our deciduous trees, shrubs and vines are still leafless. Those bare plants are a reminder that there are a variety of deciduous fruit crops that we can grow ...

When it comes to deciduous shrubs and trees, fall and winter are the seasons they get serious about root growth. In places like Southern California, where the ground never freezes, roots never stop ...