Learn how to know when to pick apples and enjoy perfectly flavored fruit ready for eating, cooking or making into cider.

“Asian pears are ready to pick and eat as soon as their skin is no longer green and has changed to shades of brown, russet, ...

Autumn brings yearly anticipation of ripe pears and apples. But how do you know when it’s the right time to pull them off the ...

Fruit trees flourish when they're growing in an ecosystem that supports and nourishes them. This ancient technique aims to ...

The way you prune a pear tree, and the time you do it, can significantly impact both the health of the tree and the amount of ...

As your summer garden starts to fade, it’s a good time to start planning for next year’s harvest, so why not try something ...

The closure of Del Monte Foods’ pear cannery is rumbling through Washington’s tree fruit industry, leaving growers without ...

Michigan’s native pawpaw trees produce a delicate fruit that looks like a mango and tastes like a banana. It’s sometimes ...

A versatile fruit that's superb in jams and with booze, quince also doesn't make you work too hard for all that pleasure.

A relatively mild winter, favorable growing conditions during the spring and summer and financial help from a federal agency have provided a much-needed boost to the region’s pear growers. Estimates ...

The ‘near-perfect’ growing conditions have led to people trying to identify “mystery” apple varieties growing in gardens and orchards ...

Over 108 hectares of horticulture land damaged; growers fear lasting impact as waterlogging risks permanent tree loss.