In the hopes of crunching into homegrown produce or experimenting with heirloom varieties, many homeowners grow apple trees ...

Growing these plants near apples can attract pests and other problems that could harm your trees. Do not plant black walnuts, eastern red cedars, junipers, and hawthorns near apple trees. Avoid ...

After a few years of watching and waiting for a peach tree I planted to bear fruit, it finally did this year. Unfortunately, it was unable to produce during those first few years because of peach leaf ...

I hope that readers with fruit trees are in the thick of winter pruning and thinking about that one crucial dormant oil application. For what dormant oil controls on fruit trees, the list is long and ...

Growing apples in the Northeast can be challenging, as we have a number of diseases and insect pests to contend with annually. Moths can be particularly challenging, as the larval (or caterpillar) ...

What would you say is the greatest threat to the survival of our trees? Deforestation? Climate change? How about disease? Many of us don't really think about trees getting sick or infected but pests ...

Howard Garrett There is no product that will truly solve the insect and disease problems plaguing your fruit trees. Don't get me wrong. There are several organic products that will kill or neutralize ...

Plant life is subject to the harms of an enormous range of diseases, pests, and other ills—some relatively harmless, and others capable of withering entire crops and destroying whole forests, too.

Do not plant black walnuts, eastern red cedars, junipers, and hawthorns near apple trees. Avoid planting tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, brassicas, and root vegetables near apples. Sunflowers nearby also ...