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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The entries were judged by farmworker Hermelinda Espinoza, Washington Fruit Growers vice president of orchard operations Robin Graham, Washington State University tree fruit research assistant ...

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 ...