Is your fruit tree looking sick or bearing bad fruit? Fruit tree diseases are common: Here's how to identify the problem so you can effectively treat your tree.

URBANA — Winter is a great time for orchard owners and fruit tree gardeners to reflect on how their trees are doing and to create a plan for the coming growing season. When it comes to disease ...

Apple trees with cedar apple rust may affect fruit quality and overall tree health as the disease can cause repeated defoliation. For apples, products containing myclobutanil are also effective ...

Arts & Entertainment. The easiest organic way to address diseases and pests on your fruit trees You could apply organic preparations and products, but you have to address the underlying stress ...

Q: I live in east Texas. I planted an apricot tree this year, and it was thriving but now is losing leaves one branch at a time. The first leaves to fall off are those closest to the trunk. Within ...

How to prune backyard apple, peach and apricot trees. There are two types of pruning cuts for fruit trees -- heading and thinning -- and which you use depends on what type of tree you’re trimming.

The spread of an incurable fruit-tree disease caused by an aphid-like insect continues to march across San Bernardino County, with the discovery of five diseased trees in Rancho Cucamonga in ...

Winter is a great time to review your home orchard's performance last summer and make plans for this year. To maximize the health of fruit trees, begin with proper pruning, then provide good care ...