Winter fruit tree pruning starts as soon as leaves drop from the trees. It’s easier to see the branching structure of the tree — I call it the tree’s “architecture” — after the leaves ...

If you're examining your fruit trees and notice white spots on the leaves, you might be dealing with powdery mildew. As the ...

Question: My young fruit tree suddenly lost its leaves. This happened after I changed to the fall watering schedule. A couple of weeks ago I had tree service fertilize all my trees and shrubs ...

Unless the number of leaves increases significantly, I doubt if all the fruit will mature. I fertilized this apricot tree the last week of January using 10-15-15 fertilizer spikes as I do every year.

USUALLY, THE BEST time to prune fruit trees is after they have dropped their leaves and are dormant in winter. There are, however, definite advantages to pruning fruit trees in August.

Ebay listings show Fremont growers selling 30 fresh loquat leaves for around $6, or 8 pounds of fruit for $65. There are reportedly more than 900 varieties of loquat tree, each yielding fruits of ...

Any plants beneath the trees should be sprayed with water immediately after these chemicals are applied to remove what falls on the leaves and minimize any damage from the spray.

Leaves are a wonderful addition because the roots of trees transfer minerals from deep in the soil to their leaves. By enriching fruit trees’ soil with minerals, we are fortifying their immune ...