From blossom to harvest, apples are sensitive to every shift in the weather — and this season has thrown a little bit of everything at growers. Between heavy rainfall and ...

Walking out into your yard and plucking fresh fruit from a tree sounds like a fantasy, but you can make it your reality, and ...

The large apples of the Wolf River Apple Tree, which can grow to be one pound, are ideal for using in sauces and cooking. “This variety is especially resistant to disease and cold temps,” says ...

This diversity ensures resistance — among at least some of the tree’s offspring — to a wide spectrum of stressors such as drought, flooding, cold, disease, or insect pest infestation.

Choosing an apple variety that is resistant to common diseases will reduce the amount of work it takes to get a crop and the need for pesticides in a home orchard. (Deborah J. G. Brown/The Morton ...

Apples are susceptible to a whole bucket of diseases like powdery mildew, apple scab and anthracnose. Reputable nurseries should be able to give advice on varieties that are resistant to scab or ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– A team of researchers from Michigan State University discovered a native tree unlocking the secret to protecting apples from cold weather damage. Steve van Nocker, a pl… ...

If you've ever taken a bite of a crisp Fuji or Honeycrisp apple and thought about how great it would be to have them in your backyard, you're not alone. There's nothing more appealing than plucking ...

"Honeycrisp is a wonderful apple – great name, great marketing, really popular with people. But only about 40% of the Honeycrisp makes it from the orchard to the grocery store," says Susan Brown ...

“Goldrush” is also a good disease resistant apple tree, while “Winesap” is actually an heirloom variety which has been grown since the 1800’s.