“Unlike termites, carpenter ants do not eat wood,” writes Ashley Kulhanek and Curtis Young in an OSU post on ants and dead ...

The year was 1985, the site was a 350-acre property development in a very up-market area called Fairfield, Connecticut.

A: Apple trees commonly produce shoots where the trunk emerges from ground level, often termed crown suckers. If allowed to ...

Some fruit trees are notorious for producing a big crop one year and a much smaller crop the next. Here's what to know and what you can do about it.

Old apple trees commonly have too many spurs, which spreads a tree's resources among so many fruits that those that do ripen are small and poor-quality.

As in Robert Frost’s poem “After Apple-Picking,” my “long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree/Toward heaven still.” And my “instep arch not only keeps the ache,/It keeps the pressure of the ...

During a routine winter pruning of 15-year-old apple trees, an unsettling discovery was made—large, brown, hard, swollen lumps clinging to the branches., Even the espaliered apple trees in the front ...

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

Why you need to prune your apple trees 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 ...

Last week’s column offered a February “To-do” list. Pruning fruit trees and berry bushes topped the list and while we often think of pruning and training young apple trees, mature ...

Last week’s column offered a February “To-do” list. Pruning fruit trees and berry bushes topped the list and while we often think of pruning and training young apple trees, mature trees benefit from ...

Last week’s column offered a February “To-do” list. Pruning fruit trees and berry bushes topped the list and while we often think of pruning and training young apple trees, mature ...