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 ...

Most gardeners wait until spring to plant fruit trees, but these varieties actually thrive when planted now and reward you ...

Yoshie Tachiki of Los Angeles wrote to the SoCal Garden Clinic to ask: We have a Fuji apple tree that has a white, cotton-like substance on the limbs. Is it a fungus? What can we use to get rid of it?

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 ...

Fall may be the omen of winter, but its abundance at least eases the anxiety of its arrival. The bounty of the season is measured well by my Fuji apple tree, whose branches strain to hold up their ...

Late winter is the perfect time to start getting your fruiting trees and shrubs ready for spring. Now is a good time for pruning and planting. And it is a great time to graft! Grafting is a method of ...

Late in the 2008 growing season, David Doud took a stroll through the orchard where he was raising test trees for an apple-breeding program. He worked his way down a row, taking bites from apples and ...

Honeycrisp’s iconic crunch transformed the apple industry, but for the people who grow the finicky fruit, she’s ‘an absolute ...

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 ...

Chris Walsh, a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, has spent decades growing apple trees. He grew up in Montgomery County, but worked on apple orchards in the Northeast after college.