Growing fruit trees is often easier than you may think and can be highly rewarding when it is done successfully. While planting and pruning trees is relatively straightforward, protecting them from ...
Evergreen fruit trees, including lemon trees, other citrus varieties, and avocado, don’t require a chilling or dormant period ...
Royal Horticultural Society links spread of orchard infections to heatwave with trees still at risk The UK’s fruit trees are under threat as a result of the climate crisis because plant diseases that ...
Growing your own fruit from scratch is one of the most rewarding things to do in the garden, so it can be disappointing when you go to harvest only to find that your crop has been spoiled. With the ...
This time of year ushers in a wonderful harvest of fruit; figs, pears, quince, persimmons, apples, damsons, and plums start to fall to the ground and await collection by us gardeners to bake and stew ...
There was no fruit fly to be found in Broken Hill 20 years ago, but now gardeners are facing an uphill battle trying to rid ...
Brown rot: a ghastly disease that that attacks pears, apples and plums, andcan't be cured. Credit: Photo: GETTY IMAGES It's that time of year again. Now that fruit is ripening and being harvested, ...
Most fruit trees require a lot of sunlight to develop and bear fruit, so you can't place them in a low-light area (even seemingly bright windows might not fully meet their demands). Some have even ...