Pruning apple trees encourages growth and reduces the risk of disease. Prune apple trees in late winter or early spring to ...

Once the apples are harvested, the tree still needs some care for the upcoming season. Photo: Getty Images/South_agency Once the last apples are harvested and the ladders are put away, it seems the ...

Suppose you start your own apple orchard on the cheap. You harvest the seeds from a single apple that you love and plant them in the ground. Next spring, six apple tree seedlings come up — success! A ...

Apples and apple trees are more commonly associated with cooler autumn days and heaping buckets full of delicious apples. But if you want that sweet apple crop, there's no time like summer to give ...

It might be easy to grow and care for an apple tree, but keeping it safe? Well, that is where the problems begin. There is no shortage of pests and diseases that affect it, and any one of them could ...

When it comes to harvesting, fruit usually falls into one of two categories: the type that continues to ripen off the tree, and the type that doesn’t. In the former category, it's best to harvest ...

You'll never run short of delicious apples to throw in your lunch box or grab on the go if you grow your own apple trees.

Another good apple harvest year is expected this season, with an estimated haul of about 30.5 million bushels, or 1.281 billion pounds, in 2024, the Michigan Apple Committee announced. This is the ...

PALMER — Forrest Gore waited for customers at his family’s apple orchard on a quiet Wednesday afternoon. He calls the 15 acres his father’s labor of love. His dad, Bert Gore, had another take on his ...