Are you looking to add a small flowering tree to your yard? The wintersweet tree (Chimonanthus praecox) looks gorgeous and ...

Apple trees are an investment not just in one's kitchen (fresh apples? delicious), but also in the value of one's home and ...

Chives, garlic, and other alliums add a disease-fighting boost to your apple grove. “Apple scab is one of the issues that has been known to diminish if the gardener chooses to plant chives or ...

To apple historian John Bunker, it's a treasure trove of living history. "Apple varieties that were grown commonly in Maine, 100 to 200, to 250, years ago," Bunker said.

Imagine biting into a crisp apple, fresh from your garden. There's a secret to ensuring this delight, and it involves a crucial task in June. 06:00, Sun, May 25, 2025 As a gardener, there aren't ...

Pune's IUCAA, founded by Jayant Narlikar, once hosted saplings from Newton's apple tree, symbolizing science's legacy. Current trees haven't borne fruit yet. Pune: In the mid-1990s, renowned ...

Enterprise apple trees ripen in October, and they're resistant to blight, rust, and scab, as well as moderately resistant to mildew. Traunfeld notes they have medium to large, red, crisp fruit.

Pruning an apple tree can seem like a daunting task if you have never done it before. Like most other skills, you start out slowly learning the basics to help build confidence. Then once the basic ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling ...

If left to their own devices, most apple trees grow into large, globe-shaped trees, with the best fruit forming on the tree’s outer perimeter, high above convenient apple-picking height.

The apple varieties whose flavors are familiar from the supermarket, such as Granny Smith, Fuji or Honeycrisp, are sprayed regularly with fungicides and other chemicals in commercial orchards.

The apple tree, photographed in July 2021. (Courtesy TSKP X ikd and Cambridge Arts Council) Twelve-year-old Milo Weinberg remembers the apple tree at Cambridge’s Tobin Montessori School like an ...