As our meteorologist Nathan Kitchens reported, the next few days will bring overnight frost and freeze threats. If you own ...
Hurricane Milton left several neighborhoods littered with downed trees. Some fell away from homes, some crushed homes, and ...
The leaf spot is minor and nothing to worry about this late in the season. Just rake up the leaves and dispose of them this ...
So the first big decision – which apple tree to plant? I’ve decided I need a small apple tree – we have a 10m x 5m garden, and I think it would become a nice focal point that I can build the rest of ...
The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.
Fusiform rust is one of the costliest diseases in the timber industry and is especially damaging to the loblolly pine. The disease causes deformities that cause the wood to be unusable, and severely ...
And those trees that did produce fruit often suffered rust spots on the pears. “It’s still very edible. But because of these cosmetic issues, it means you take a loss by sending it to be ...
Hazard maps are an important tool in disease management, serving as a guide on where to plant trees bred to be resistant to fusiform rust. However, many of the previous maps are outdated.
"After the freeze, as the pear grows, it gets this rust-colored ring called a russet ... Near the Tri-Cities, the fruit trees grow west of the town in mountainous areas where there's volcanic ...
Apple Annie's, which opened in 1986 when the apple trees began bearing fruit, consists of two different sections: the orchard, where the apples grow and people can pick their own or buy apples ...
Quince is the ugly duckling of the pome family, which includes apples and pears. This yellow-green fruit is lumpy, hard as a rock, and sometimes hairy. Unlike apples and pears, most varieties of ...
“Climbing very tall trees is hard. You can really feel the stretch in the rope, especially when you’re ascending. You bounce around and expend a lot of energy reaching the top by hanging in ...