protect your trees (and fruit yield), and prevent other trees in your yard or orchard from contracting the disease. Here are some things to be on the lookout that will help you spot fruit tree ...

If you’re considering adding an apple tree to your home landscape this spring, it’s important to choose an appropriate ...

Growing fruit in a backyard or home orchard can be rewarding or can be very frustrating, depending on disease and insect pests that may be present. While it is tempting to plant fruit trees and not ...

To the editor, An effort to beautify the Falls has failed. Why? Not because the desired effect was not achieved, but due to a plant disease called black knot. Black knot is a fungus which attacks ...

You can purchase pecan trees in containers at your local garden center. To plant them, dig a hole two to three times the ...

Prohexadione calcium, meanwhile, widens the walls of a plant’s cells, conditioning the tree to create a physical barrier that ...

Avoid plants that show any sign of disease. Place your tree in a sunny and sheltered position. This will maximise the time your fruit has to ripen. Dig a hole a third wider than the roots and to ...

To the editor, Recently you published a letter from the Koochiching Men’s Garden Club concerning the spread of black knot disease in some types of ornamental and wild fruit trees, which is ...

According to the Royal Horticultural Society: "Apple canker is a disease caused by a fungus ... If you find canker on your fruit trees, the best thing to do is to immediately cut it out.