Apple season in the U.S. is well underway. Depending on the variety, apple season runs from July to November, according to Pick Your Own, an organization focused on pick-your-own farms As Americans ...

Q: My apple tree has little green fruit, flowers, new leaves, and dying leaves – all at once. It’s late October. What is going on? Your tree is confused. This frequently happens when a high-chill ...

Today's apples don't grow on towering trees, could have been picked in 2023, and taste way different than they used to. And that's just the beginning of the surprising modern reality of a ...

With the right variety, you can cultivate perfect harvests from home.

Get rid of dead or damaged branches and keep the tree's size in check. If you look forward to harvesting fruit from your own apple trees to make jams, pies, and jars of apple butter, the first step is ...

Have you heard of Egyptian apple pie? It’s the type mummy used to make. Apples are the most common homegrown fruit in Northern regions. Most apple tree owners know they’re supposed to prune their ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...