Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laurie Black There’s something so rewarding about picking fresh fruit off a tree you grew yourself. However, growing fruit can be ...

With a bit of extra care and a lot of natural light, you can have a beautiful home orchard in no time.

Fruit trees are dormant. So are all the diseases and insects that prey on the fruit trees. The trees and insects will come to ...

Late winter is an ideal time for pruning many trees, and fruit trees are no exception. Regularly trimming away damaged and unsightly branches is key to maintaining a healthy tree with an aesthetically ...

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...

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Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at dgill@agcenter.lsu.edu. I was wondering if you could provide me with a list of which fruit trees need ...

If you have fruit trees, now’s the time to be on the lookout for codling moths. This is the time of year — mid-March to early April — when the adult codling moth, a little grayish-brown lepidopteran, ...

A new fruit gleaning group has saved at least 10 tons of citrus fruit from going to waste ...