Growing your own fruit is both rewarding and challenging. There's an art to getting the growing environment right for your fruit trees so they can produce plenty of juicy fruit. Pomegranate trees ...

most of the reasons fruit trees don't produce fruit are easy to anticipate—and simple to solve. Watering, fertilizing, planting location, and pollination all play a part, along with temperatures ...

This section explores three broad themes to illustrate the costs and benefits of orchard management practices and variation among popular tree fruit and nut species. Theme 1: The relationship between ...

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? This question makes me smile because it is both. The same can be said of cucumbers, ...

Pawpaw trees suppress plant diversity through dense, shady growth, creating unpredictable ecosystems, but fostering diverse ...

Japanese researchers have succeeded in fertilising pear trees using pollen carried on the thin film of a soap bubble. They've been searching for alternative approaches to pollination, because of ...

Self-fertile trees will produce fruit without the need for another tree to pollinate it. If your tree is not self-fertile it will need to be paired with another one. Trees can be bought either in ...

Apples are the most accommodating and long lived of fruit trees, and they cope with our wet climate quite well. There are ...

For the past two years, my garden has done very poorly. Plants have grown as big or well as in past years but have not ...

Tech companies in Israel have designed fruit-picking drones and tree-pollinating "paddles" to make farms more efficient at a time of worker shortages and climate change. In Chile, flying robots ...

This year, the state tree fruit association estimated a pear crop ... One of the challenges was pollination. For pears, a 44-pound box is standard. The 2023 harvest was 15.2 million boxes.