Gardeners with apple or pear trees are being urged to check them this January for a potentially deadly disease. Alan Buckingham, author of Allotment Month By Month, advises in his book that ...

Various diseases affect fruit, and some are caused by fungi while ... apricots, pluots, and cherries). Apple trees are commonly affected by fire blight, apple scab, fruit rots, rusts, and powdery ...

Prune out branches pointing inward. If fire blight bacterial disease has been a past problem on an apple tree, then pruning during late winter’s full dormancy is still recommended. Fire blight ...

The fact that apples grown from seedling trees are extremely tart and basically inedible — as opposed to cloned or grafted ...

Create a strong branch structure to hold the growing fruit Create fruiting wood where you want to pick the fruit Allow light ...