If you’re considering adding an apple tree to your home landscape this spring, it’s important to choose an appropriate variety. “The particular variety you plant will affect how many apples you ...

With more than 7,500 varieties of apples from which to choose, there’s more than one way to “keep the doctor away.” But keeping apples healthy can be as challenging as keeping the humans who love them ...

While many celebrate apple blossoms as classic signs of spring, they are also welcoming entry gates for pathogens. Full of nutrients to lure pollinators and promote pollen germination, flowers also ...

Joellen Dimond discusses fall garden tips, and Mr. D. talks about apple tree diseases. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen ...

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 ...

Whenever eastern Nebraska has an extended cool, wet spring gardeners see increased infection from apple scab and cedar-apple rust. Healthy trees can tolerate periodic infections with little long-term ...