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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

But others may just want to enjoy the largest edible tree fruit in the United States. "Then you want to encourage as many genetically distinct patches as possible so that cross-pollination can ...

and they boost the oil content and fruit weight of avocado. The research team from the University of Göttingen emphasizes the importance of paying attention to the specificity of the pollinator ...

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.