Funding aimed at protecting future crops of cherries, peaches, apples and other tree fruits from changing growing conditions ...

This is the opening to our latest Big Story, which we are excited to share today. It’s all about how Apple (and its peers) ...

The disease protection stems from the fact that if roots are already colonized by a beneficial AMF, it outcompetes the fungal ...

For the past two or three years, some apple trees in the Northeast have been showing signs of decline: off-color foliage, ...

Martha's orchard was first planted in 2017 and includes more than 200 fruit trees. While her trees are pruned and fed ...

We're all familiar with apples and pears, but there are many other fruit trees that produce edible fruit. Perhaps not as ...

Adding a shallow layer of soil between the protruding roots should help level out the area, allow for reseeding and make mowing easier.

Second, potatoes have deep roots that can disturb the shallow ... should be kept far away from apple trees and other fruit trees in the rose family due to their role in spreading destructive rust ...

Plenty happens below the surface, and sometimes it can get, uh, rather gnarly. It’s often said a tree’s root system under the ground is as large as the tree above ground. That’s generally true, ...

The temperature all over the northeast dropped into the low twenties during bloom time for the apple trees and many orchards that season lost everything. "We did not if it wasn't so much of a ...

Apple orchards throughout the Northeast witnessed a spate of rapid apple-tree decline (RAtD ... mostly on the exposed shank of the rootstock (see photo below). Among other trunk cankers, this failure ...

“It includes visual monitoring and inspection of tree trunks and roots to identify the trees’ health and structural safety. “Road shoulders and limited root space also cause some shady trees ...