Reading some of the national gardening blogs and articles gives me a chuckle. Frequently they are out of touch with gardening and horticulture in the desert Southwest. For instance, one recently said ...

A: Yes, it is entirely possible that your crabapple and your 'Fuji' apple tree have been engaging in some "hanky-panky." Apples and crabapples can interbreed freely because they are the same plant ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Apple growers want to get the most out of their high-value cultivars, and a Purdue University study shows they might want to focus on the types of apples they plant near those ...

Researchers calculated the response of apple fruit quality to sprays of zinc sulfate and sugar alcohol zinc to determine whether continuing to supply zinc to trees could increase the fruit quality of ...

CHRIS BAUGHER’S great-grandfather first planted apple trees in Adams County, Pennsylvania in 1905. In 2013 Mr Baugher planted 7,000 Fuji apple trees in the orchard, which supplies apples to market and ...

Photos by Shmuel Thaler/Santa Cruz Sentinel/TNS Mel LaRussa checks on the Fuji Apple trees at Clearview Organic Orchards in Watsonville, Calif., where the drought and lack of frost have caused his ...