Ben Young of Young’s Greenhouse shares his passion for fruit trees, tips for planting, and how his orchard grew from just one ...

A demonstration on how to place a Fruit Saver net over an apple tree to protect it from fruit fly, birds, and other animals. Fruit Saver net link: <a href=" Information article on fruit fly: <a href=" ...

Question: I read that apple trees should be sprayed for worms at petal fall. Is it too late to spray? Do I need more than one ...

A: This phenomenon is called alternate-year bearing and is very common in fruit trees. In non-bearing years, the tree tends ...

Among the pests that apple growers may deal with are scale insects ... practices that help prevent or reduce pest problems. And, it includes a spray guide for each tree fruit, describing typical pest ...

Some cultivars of apples and peaches are productive only under the careful use of a regular spray program using a fruit tree spray, a combination fungicide and insecticide product. Spraying at ...

These humane methods will help keep your apples, peaches ... with a motion sensor near the base of your fruit tree. It will then spray a short burst of water when any movement is detected.

If you do need to spray your fruit trees, they’ll be easier to ... Apple: The modified central leader technique is ideal for apple trees. Cut off upper branches that may meet the trunk at ...

There are two types of pruning cuts for fruit trees -- heading and thinning -- and which you use depends on what type of tree you’re trimming. Question: In my backyard I have apple, peach and ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling ...

But the nearly 200-tree McDonald Peach Orchard, situated near the Mojave River in Apple Valley, is “old and tired,” producing smaller-sized fruit as the orchard battles age, critters and ...