CORVALLIS — From newly minted gardeners to avid urban farmers, everyone with a patch of land wants to grow an apple tree. Other fruits — pears, cherries, figs, plums — are desirable, too, but there’s ...

It might feel like pruning your apple trees in the dead of winter makes no sense. In fact, your dormant trees will thank you when they wake up in the spring.

As you start to think of Spring time weather, you may begin looking around the yard making a to-do list to accomplish. One of those looming tasks may be finally “attacking” that old apple tree. Late ...

Q. I have a Honeycrisp apple tree that was planted about five years ago. It is loaded with apples this year, and the branches are really drooping. I'm afraid they'll break. What should I do, pick some ...

PLANTING A FRUIT TREE is an investment in time and garden resources. Greg Giuliani is a longtime home orchardist and a member of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society, a chapter of the Western Cascade Fruit ...