Have you ever noticed that your backyard apple or pear tree produces a large quantity of fruit one year, but a ...

Some fruit trees thrive when propagated from cuttings, while others don't do well with this method. Figs are among the best ...

Fruit salad trees produce anywhere from four to eight different types of fruits, yielding a varied cocktail of a harvest. And ...

These treasured landscapes are fading fast, squeezed by rising costs and council neglect, but their value to Britain is ...

Those cuttings were grafted onto a basic M-111 apple tree rootstock, and the results were extremely successful. Cameron Stauder, PhD, geneticist for the US Forest Service, Eastern Oregon Zone stated, ...

Their fruit often goes uneaten or rots - but have now instead be used to create a unique orchard. The Wilding Mother Orchard overlooks the Helford (Image: William Dax / SWNS) The orchard has been ...

The UK's first orchard grown from littered apple cores in Cornwall is blooming with more than 75 trees. The Some Interesting Apples project collects apples from wild trees grown from chucked away ...

Systemic herbicides (glyphosate, glufosinate-ammonium) in particular. Avoid hitting the tree trunk and root suckers with those. (Paraquat too!) Shield tree trunks if you insist on overlapping contact ...

Instead, new red delicious trees are propagated by grafting part of the apple tree onto the rootstock of a different tree. Growing cuttings (or taking a snippet of a plant and letting it regrow ...

Your apple trees, by comparison, sound very happy. The problem here is how to keep their growth in check. Left unpruned, their eventual size depends a lot on what rootstock was used by the nursery ...

In an apple tree, other factors should be taken into account, such as cold tolerance, the requirement of chilling units, the season or flowering season, the duration of the juvenile phase, the size, ...

For recently planted younger apple trees not yet bearing fruit, developing strong frameworks is critical. Choose horizontally oriented branches with wide angles from the trunk to become the main ...