With Spring around the corner, plants, trees and shrubs will soon be bursting into bloom. Now’s the time to get your pruning shears out.

Depending on the size and variety of the pear tree, expect it to bear fruit between three to seven years of age. “You can ...

If left to their own devices, most apple trees grow into large, globe-shaped trees, with the best fruit forming on the tree’s ...

Due to a lack of funding, advanced.farm, developer of an automated apple harvester that was close to commercialization, ...

it can be harder to harvest fruit from tall trees with an upright central leader. Recommended for pear and persimmon trees, as well as dwarf and semi-dwarf apple trees. Open center form ...

harvest the seeds and plant them in small containers. Soon, the seeds will germinate, and you'll be well on your way to growing an apple tree. While the process is a time commitment (it can take ...

Two farmworkers in Mexico took top honors in a contest organized by a Washington-based nonprofit that asked workers to ...

Apply a grease band around the trunk of your apple tree to stop female winter moths from climbing the bark and laying their eggs in the tree. This small preventative measure will stop this pest ...

reducing the tendency of some apple types to have boom-or-bust apple harvest cycles, where trees bear heavily one year, followed by no apples the next, referred to as biennial bearing. When is the ...