Apples, plums, and other fruit trees don’t need as much fertilizer as fast-growing vegetables that complete their entire lifecycle in a single season. However, fruit trees that are growing slowly or ...

To get a bumper crop of fruit on your citrus trees, you must provide fertilizer at the right times. These trees are heavy feeders that need more nutrients than they can get from the soil to produce ...

Aim to fertilize fruit trees in spring or early summer. This timing allows the trees to absorb nutrients they can use for new growth and fruit production, says Lauren St. Germain Kidd, the owner of ...

Blueberries do best with an acid fertilizer. Now (Feb.) is the time to fertilize fruit trees and bushes. Photo courtesy of the LSU AgCenter Fertilize grape vines, hardy fruit trees, such as apple, ...

Established fruit trees don't need to be fertilized much besides annual compost, say OSU Extension master gardeners. Photo of Sweet Tango apples provided by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.

I just planted a young Louisiana sweet orange tree I was given last October. The tree is covered with small white buds, which I’m assuming will develop into flowers. Should I knock them off since the ...

Grow more fruit by following these must-know tips for boosting fruit tree health. Select a fruit tree variety for your climate and plant it in full sun. Pruning, thinning fruit, and watering during ...

Growing your own avocado tree can be highly rewarding, even saving you some money when avocados are expensive to buy at the grocery store. Still, if you're growing one or more avocado trees in your ...

Growing your own peaches is easier than it seems.

Most of the questions gardeners have about fertilizers are variants of when, what and how much. Here in Q&A format are tips that should take the confusion out of fertilizing. Q: When's the best time ...

When Tom Spellman began lecturing on fruit trees more than two decades ago, his audience skewed primarily older with lots of people in their 60s and 70s. In recent years, that’s started to change.