When summer ends, you look forward to closing shop on gardening in the fall. But do your trees need additional fertilizer?

Blueberries do best with an acid fertilizer. Now (Feb.) is the time to fertilize fruit trees and bushes. Photo courtesy of the LSU AgCenter Fertilize grape vines, hardy fruit trees, such as apple, ...

Excess irrigation will increase the tree’s vulnerability to disease and decrease the quality of its fruit. Overwatering can kill a mango tree. When the trees are grown in harmony with their ...

Growing, blooming and fruiting in the heat of summer, enduring the cold of winter and the fury of hurricanes, mangoes have made this land their home — the warm, southern extreme of South Florida ...

Most landscape trees do not need fertilizer. It’s better to focus on watering and mulching to help your trees grow. Instead ...

Julie asks: My mango tree put out tons of fruit last year. This year’s flowers are fewer, and they look terrible. The fruit that does start forming is dropping off. What’s going on and what can I do ...

Q: My husband is freaking out because there is no fruit on his Kent mango tree. He has a green thumb and says he had beautiful flowers, but now no fruit. He checked a neighbor down the street, no ...

If you, like so many of us, can’t get enough of that glorious golden globe of summer, the mango, you’re in luck. Turns out that, among all tropical fruit trees, mangoes are the easiest to grow. “It’s ...

All winter long these trees went unnoticed in landscapes throughout Southwest Florida and now, they are treating us to a sweet surprise. The mangoes – dangling curry-colored orbs – appear around the ...