Learn how to know when to pick apples and enjoy perfectly flavored fruit ready for eating, cooking or making into cider.

“Asian pears are ready to pick and eat as soon as their skin is no longer green and has changed to shades of brown, russet, ...

A sign that the apples are going to detach simply can be when you see lots of windfall apples on the ground around trees.

Autumn brings yearly anticipation of ripe pears and apples. But how do you know when it’s the right time to pull them off the ...

To pick or not to pick? That is the question that has sparked one of the fiercest debates across the city. L.A. Times feature writer Jeanette Marantos asked readers a simple question: “When is it ok ...

As fall settles in and temperatures start to drop, safeguarding fruit trees from frost becomes an essential responsibility ...

It's time to head to the apple orchards. "Nothing like fresh off the tree, and they keep much better when harvested at the peak...that is now," Barden Family Orchard wrote in a Facebook post on ...