Q: I came back from vacation and my Gala apple tree branch was dead. The tree also has some black spotting under the bark. I’m hoping it’s not damaged from fire blight. A: It looks like an ...

A good starting apple to grow here is the Gravenstein. This heirloom variety was once the most popular fruit grown in ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling ...

Here are two apple trees that flourish in most of the U.S., and that are great choices for beginners. Gala trees produce red apples that are sweet, crisp, and fast to mature. Unlike other ...

Each apple tree variety matures and bears fruit at a different rate. So, if you want apples fast, choose dwarf and semi-dwarf varieties of cultivars like Honeycrisp, Gala, and Granny Smith.

Here, we break down some of those desirable features—like disease resistance and ripening time—and provide expert insights on the very best apple trees you can grow at home. Gala apple trees ...

And while all apples can be enjoyed right off the tree, some are favorites for eating and others for cooking or processing. In 2018, Gala apples became the most-produced variety in the U.S ...

They don’t: if you plant a Gala seed, you won’t grow a tree that produces Gala apples. (Brown’s favorite apple: “SnapDragon, without a doubt,” she says. Her team cultivated SnapDragons ...

As such, a branch from one Gala apple tree is used to make another Gala apple tree, and a branch from the new Gala tree can propagate future generations of Gala trees, Peck said. Gala apple tree ...

and Fuji for the parent of the red apple. His first cross was a Dwarf McIntosh with a Gala. That produced the grandparent trees in 1991, which they called Compact Gala Macs. These in turn were ...