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Seeking a fast-growing fruit tree for your yard? If you love birds and baking, consider a tart cherry tree (Prunus cerasus). Likely growing 1 to 2 feet per year, it can start producing fruit in 2 to 3 ...

Q: Have you seen a reduced fruit set in plums, apricots and pluots this year or is it just mine? These are 3- to 5-year-old trees and I did not see many flowers at all. Not so much lack of pollination ...

Q. Last year I had about a dozen apples on our tree. This spring it flowered so profusely it looked like a snowball and now it has so many apples we had problems with limbs breaking. It's had more ...

Q: We moved into our home a year ago in January, and had only three delicious peaches from two existing trees. We redid our yard with a new drip system and rocks a few months ago. As I have no real ...

The secret to the perfect fig is in your shears. A few strategic cuts turn a tangled thicket into a high-yielding masterpiece. Here’s how to master pruning fig trees ...

Pruning is an essential garden chore for healthy trees, and you may assume that fruit and shade trees have the same pruning requirements, but they don't.

Q. Last year, my plum tree didn’t have any fruit at all. This spring, it has so many plums that I’m afraid the branches may break! Why? This phenomenon is called “alternate year bearing” and is very ...

In February, before spring has arrived and the bugs are back out, it's a great time to do some yard maintenance. These trees benefit from a quick pruning.