The fact that apples grown from seedling trees are extremely tart and basically inedible — as opposed to cloned or grafted ...

Artist Sam Van Aken fuses heirloom trees through a horticultural process known as grafting. He then plants them around the ...

Pruning is an essential part of fruit tree maintenance, but doing it wrong can spell trouble for your trees. Here are the key ...

If left to their own devices, most apple trees grow into large, globe-shaped trees, with the best fruit forming on the tree’s outer perimeter, high above convenient apple-picking height.

Extensive pruning is best done over a period of two to three years to lessen shock to the tree, with no more than one-third ...

Paul Wiggins tells us how his work teaching on the Food Forest Garden elective at Sussex, helping with community volunteering ...

Create a strong branch structure to hold the growing fruit Create fruiting wood where you want to pick the fruit Allow light ...

Regularly trimming away damaged and unsightly branches is key to maintaining a healthy tree with an aesthetically pleasing ...

Increasing daylength and warmer days tells us spring is not far off. While certainly too early for any outdoor planting or ...

Fruit trees don’t always grow in a form that ... Apple: The modified central leader technique is ideal for apple trees. Cut off upper branches that may meet the trunk at narrow angles to ...