Fruit thinning plays a crucial role in apple production, balancing crop load to ensure optimum fruit size, colour, firmness and overall quality. This cultural practice involves the deliberate removal ...

If your apple tree is loaded with fruit, it’s time to remove some. Pinching small fruit off of a fruit tree in June may seem like an odd task, but it is worth doing in the long run. Unless a spring ...

Snowballs of bloom followed by miniature fruits tell of branches soon to be bowed by the weight of large and luscious peaches, apples, pears and plums. Large and luscious, that is, if you pluck some ...

An abundant harvest of apples in autumn is a delight for the home orchardist. But some years, a bumper crop of apples can cause unanticipated stress to apple trees when there is more or heavier fruit ...