Posts Tagged: apples
Hand Thinning Improves Fruit Size and Quality
The practice of fruit “thinning” is important for increasing the size of tree fruits....
Don't Let Codling Moths Ruin Your Apples
If you have apple or pear trees in your home orchard, you are no doubt familiar with codling moths....
Woolly Apple Aphid
Each fall my Gravenstein apple gets a small patch of fluffy exudate on the bark at the base of...
Prune Home Fruit Trees To Improve Crop Size And Quality
Fruit tree pruning ranks high on most home gardeners' “to do” list during the winter...
Size control in temperate fruit trees. (A) Standard variety with no size control; (B) and (C) standard variety on semidwarfing rootstock or semidwarf variety; (D) standard variety on dwarfing rootstock. (from The CA Master Gardener Handbook)
Fruit Rot in Apples
I had long ago become resigned to the fact that I cannot grow perfect, blemish-free apples on the...