Apple trees are an investment not just in one's kitchen (fresh apples? delicious), but also in the value of one's home and garden for so many reasons.

Consider size. Home apple growers should grow either dwarf or semi-dwarf trees instead of standard or full-size trees. Dwarf and semi-dwarf trees are easier to manage, and they produce fruit ...

If left to their own devices, most apple trees grow into large, globe-shaped trees, with the best fruit forming on the tree’s outer perimeter, high above convenient apple-picking height.

An apple tree will always set more fruit than it can ever hope to ripen, so something has to give. The amount of leaves through photosynthesis can only produce so much energy.

The usual reasons for the death of an apple tree—such as root rot, fire blight, an infestation, virus, funghi or an early frost—didn’t explain the RAD-afflicted trees’ symptoms. First identified in ...

TWO DESIRES—to collect apples and plant a fruit tree—coincide in fall. You sample apple varieties at the same time that catalogs and nurseries take orders for trees to deliver in spring. For a ...

As the Boulder Apple Tree Project got underway, Suding began gathering local apple enthusiasts — agricultural experts from Boulder Parks & Open Space, people working in the hard-cider business ...