Peach trees are generally considered easy to grow—but that doesn't mean you can skip pruning. Pruning is an essential step in ensuring that your tree produces as much quality fruit as possible and can ...

The first step to quickly transforming your yard into an orchard is selecting trees that fruit between one and five years.

It never fails, someone brings in peaches from their own orchard to someone else, and that person says, “I want to grow some ...

Encourage more fruit by pollinating open blooms by hand ... and later varieties through August into early September. Peach trees can be attacked by aphids, birds, red spider mites, earwigs and ...

By Amy-Lynn Albertson N.C. Cooperative Extension Many people believe my job slows down during winter, thinking I have a “break.” In reality, winter can serve as a precursor to what is to come in ...

From pruning and spraying to cutting back and attacking slugs, February is full of important chores for the attentive gardener.

Descanso Gardens, which is well-known for its wintertime flowers — queenly camellias do rule the La Cañada Flintridge garden ...

Winter is the ideal time of the year to prune many trees. The branches are bare which makes it easier to see the overall ...

Fruit trees. Peach leaf curl, which affects both peaches and nectarines, is a devastating fungus disease. It appears on new ...

This year's peach season could bring more peaches to Central Georgia, even with the recent cold weather the state has seen. Here's why that is.