Wondering why your fruit trees are growing so slowly? Here's a little-known tip that can help accelerate their growth and ...

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

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

When do I prune apple trees? We moved to an old house with some ... diseased or damaged and follow wayward or wild branches right back to the trunk to prune them off. A more specific lesson ...

Increasing daylength and warmer days tells us spring is not far off. While certainly too early for any outdoor planting or soil work, we have advanced ...

Apply a grease band around the trunk of your apple tree to stop female winter moths from climbing the bark and laying their eggs in the tree. This small preventative measure will stop this pest ...

pruning just outside the raised “collar” where the branch arises from the trunk. Cut back to a branch or bud, to avoid leaving stubs. If your apple tree is older, overgrown and has never been ...