As fall settles in and temperatures start to drop, safeguarding fruit trees from frost becomes an essential responsibility for home gardeners and orchardists. Frost can significantly harm budding ...

Peach, nectarine, apricot, cherry, and plum trees have two types of buds — vegetative buds responsible for shoots and leaves, and flower buds. Each flower bud on stone fruit trees contains one blossom ...

Freezing temperatures damage plants by causing ice crystals to form in their cells. Frost-damaged vegetation withers and turns a dark brown or black. Ice crystals can also form in citrus fruit, ...

If you want to stay ahead of the game in the garden, now is a good time to do some, or all, of the things on today’s list: Fruit-tree pruning is best done in January and February. Prune off dead or ...

Answer: This is a tough one. There’s lots of advice out there for things that might help (emphasis on the “might”). Your options for protecting those precious buds and flowers really depend so much on ...

Did your fruit tree not produce much fruit this year? Let’s look into why this might occur. For the home gardener, the No. 1 reason for failure of trees to bear fruit is improper tree vigor. Over ...

No matter if you are a commercial grower or a backyard tropical fruit enthusiast, if you have a fruit tree, you want fruit. The number one question I receive — I am the commercial tropical fruit agent ...

Yes, you can grow fresh fruit on your balcony.