Thinning Fruit in the Home Orchard

Sometimes fruit trees try to produce more fruit than is good for the plant. Poor fruit size and flavor, plant stress, and alternate bearing can result when certain types of fruit trees aren't properly thinned.

Young Trees Can Still Produce Some Fruit

I am on assignment in northern Afghanistan now, but my readers will still be able to follow the answers to my gardening questions here in the newspaper as well as on my blog. So keep the questions coming! Q: I don't know how old my peach tree is. I assume

Minn. apple crop mostly survives untimely frost

The sudden cold snap that interrupted Minnesota's warm spring five weeks ago doesn't appear to have been as big a disaster for the state's apple crop as first feared, but it still has left some growers hurting and worried.

Warm spring produces bumper fruit crop in the Ozarks

Fruits are ripening two weeks or more earlier than normal. MILLER, Mo. -- It's a trip too bountiful for customers at Brown's Berry Farm near Miller.

Lookin’ pretty peachy

RICHLAND — Fruit trees are bursting into bloom at Eagle Creek Orchard, painting the landscape with whites and pinks. It’s pretty and fragrant — and the blossoms hold clues to this season’s harvest.