With the 2024 growing season on the horizon, you may wonder what tasks you can do now to optimize your fruit production this year. While you still have some leeway in suggested garden maintenance ...

Blossom and fruit drop and fruit splitting are fairly common problems for fruit trees. While losing blossoms and small fruit ...

However, 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 ...

Perhaps the most mysterious and asked-about part of owning a fruit tree is when and how to prune it. Now’s the time. Trees left unpruned are more susceptible to pests and diseases and produce ...

Apples, pears, plums, and other common fruit trees are sold as grafted trees, with a rootstock at the bottom joined to a scion at the top. ... The scion should ideally be a spur-bearing type.

Tree vigor. This problem will cause trees to expend energy in growing wood versus producing flower buds. Improper tree vigor ...

Does your garden have fruit-bearing trees or bushes? It’s time for this winter task By Anthony Reardon Special to The Star. February 16, 2024 6:00 AM.

Some fruit trees do not require cross-pollination to reliably produce fruit. These are called self-fruitful or self-pollinating plants, and they will produce well even if only one is planted.

Fruit-bearing plants add winter color to your landscape. Chris McKeown. Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. ... Spring is when most of our trees and shrubs produce flowers.