Start with the right pot size. Young fruit trees should generally be potted in a 5- to 10-gallon container. Gradually ...

Use clean pruners to make a cut at a 45-degree angle near the end of the branch. Trim the tip of the branch straight across ...

Most lemon trees are ready to harvest about 6 to 9 months after they flower. Typically, this occurs in late fall through ...

Imagine growing your own backyard fruit orchard, but without having to do much in the way of pest control, weed management, or fertilizing because the carefully selected companion plants support and ...

Tomato greenhouses are becoming test beds for a new kind of farm worker, one that does not just grab every red fruit in sight ...

Many homegrown fruits and vegetables can be plucked and eaten right out of the ground, off the vine, tree or shrub. Try to harvest when the plant is at its best stage of eating. Vegetables/Herbs As a ...

There are limes that should be green when you pick them and limes that should have a yellowish hue when harvested and juicy. When limes are harvested too late, they are yellowish, pithy and no longer ...

Mechanical harvesting of fruit trees represents a transformative approach to modern orchard management. By applying controlled vibrational excitations, these systems selectively detach ripe fruit ...

California’s Norfolk Healthy Produce created lots of fanfare and a wild first year when it debuted The Purple Tomato in 2023. It was the world’s first bioengineered vegetable crop marketed directly to ...

Scientists have shown for the first time the widespread harm caused in Peru by cutting down the palm tree Mauritia flexuosa in order to harvest its fruit. The scientists examined where and why the ...

It feels like winter is on its way, now that fall has arrived, and the deciduous fruit trees, shrubs, and vines need those colder temperatures. Deciduous fruit crops need a minimum number of chilling ...