Why Your Fruit Tree Isn’t Producing Ripe Fruit—and How to Fix It

Poor pollination, pests, or lack of sunlight can keep fruit from developing fully, so create a bee-friendly, sunny ...
Marin Independent Journal

Now’s the time to prune fruit trees

If you’ve ever wrestled with an overgrown fruit tree, you know the struggle: branches reaching for the sky, fruit hiding in a tangled mess and those pesky suckers popping up everywhere. But don’t ...
Nature

Fruit Thinning and Quality in Apple Trees

Fruit thinning plays a crucial role in apple production, balancing crop load to ensure optimum fruit size, colour, firmness and overall quality. This cultural practice involves the deliberate removal ...

Growing apples has changed over the years. Here's how it's done in Indiana

Apple orchards have changed. The large stout trees with thick gnarling branches of a few decades ago are now flimsy bushes ...