Summer in the Southeast ended eventfully for the region’s peach growers, according to USDA-ARS Research Horticulturist ...

Back in the East, peach trees suddenly left untended sometimes became too overgrown to bear much fruit. Others survived on farmsteads, where their fruit was fed to pigs or turned into cider ...

says that many fruit trees, including peach trees, do transplant better when they are dormant. He says: ‘When a tree is dormant there is less transplant shock.’ It makes late winter or early spring a ...

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

Peach trees can grow in US hardiness zones 5-9 and the ... fertilize the fruit tree with a dedicated fruit tree feed in early ...

Dwarf Elberta Peach Tree (Prunus persica ... it may not produce fruit there depending on when spring frost occurs. 10. Early Golden Apricot Tree (Prunus armeniaca ‘Early Golden ...

Native Americans have grown food in the desert for ages, but many tribal agricultural traditions have disappeared. Now, ...

Warmer winters, followed by snap freezes, were devastating apple and peach crops ... for whom the idea of restoring native fruit and nut trees to an overheating planet is urgent.

A: Flat-headed borers can get in the sunburned limbs and young trunks of peach, apple, nectarine, apricot and other fruit ...

Anya Stansell, a Cornell Cooperative Extension fruit-production specialist, said she knew farmers who are giving up on their peach and apricot trees “because you get a good crop so few years.” ...