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Peach Essentials Tips for growing peaches |
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Growing Apples Apples require a fair amount of patience planning. If you want a choice crop, you'll have to control insects, diseases, and other pests, worry about the weather, prune every year, keep up the harvest, and gather drops before they clog the lawn mower |
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Planting and Pruning Plums European plums grow in tight clusters, but require little thinning. |
National Gardening |
Apple Essentials Tips on planting, tending, and harvesting |
National Gardening Lee Reich |
Pruning Fruit Trees How to get young trees off to a good start and keep mature trees productive... |
National Gardening Kris Wetherbee |
Meet the Asian Pears Growing your own is the surest way to experience them at peak flavor |
National Gardening William Ross |
Fruit Trees in Containers For folks who want to grow their own fruit, but who don't have adequate space or a suitable climate, growing fruit in containers offers several opportunities. |
National Gardening |
Fruit Tree Site Selection Of primary importance when choosing a planting site for you fruit tree is that it receives as much sun as possible. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Sucker Stopper One of the most tedious pruning tasks is removing water sprouts and suckers. Now a widely used commercial orchard product is available for home gardeners. Sucker Stopper is made from a naturally occurring growth hormone, and it stops sucker growth on a variety of trees. |
National Gardening |
Peach Care Peaches do best in well-drained, sandy soils. Plant in the spring so the tree will be well established by winter. |
National Gardening |
Planning for Peaches As with most fruit trees, the trick is to start out with the peach variety that suits your climate. |
National Gardening Whitney Cranshaw |
Healthy Home Orchards Use basic pest control techniques to harvest a healthy fruit crop. |
National Gardening |
Sweet Cherries Get Easy Fresh sweet cherries have long been out of reach for most gardeners because the trees grow so big. The solution is to buy sweet cherries on a rootstock called 'Gisela'. It makes a tree you can maintain at 10 to 12 feet tall. Growers are especially excited because trees on 'Gisela' begin bearing heavy crops in just three or four years. |
National Gardening Shila Patel |
Peaches, Plums, Nectarines: When to Harvest Tree fruits are beginning to ripen this month, so we asked an expert on the subject how to harvest fruit at its absolute peak. |
National Gardening Kathy Bond Borie |
Need to Justify Those New Plants? It's well known that attractive landscaping can increase the selling price of a house, but before you bank on a return on any big landscaping projects, here are some data to consider. |
National Gardening National Gardening editors |
Leave Doomed Tomatoes on the Vine Plastic mulch is the quickest way to ripe fruit... |
National Gardening |
Planting Apple Trees Choose a site with full sun, moderate fertility, and good air circulation and water drainage. Apple trees will tolerate a wide range of soil conditions. While you can improve your soil with fertilizer and mulch, other factors will go a long way toward overcoming less-than-perfect soil. |
National Gardening Jack Ruttle |
Apple Diseases Any of the three fungal diseases described here -- scab, cedar apple rust and powdery mildew -- can cause serious defoliation that threatens not just the quality of your apple crop but the future health of your trees as well. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
New Crapemyrtles Crapemyrtles (Lagerstroemia) are often called the "lilacs of the south." They grace many homes with beautiful flowers in midsummer when few other shrubs are blooming. Although considered a southern plant, new varieties of crapemyrtle have proven hardy in colder climates. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Decoding Fruit Labels You may have noticed the individual stickers on many fruits in grocery stores. They're not just there to help checkout clerks record the price. The PLU numbered code on the stickers actually can tell you how the fruit was grown. |
National Gardening |
Peach Tree Borer Peach tree borer is mostly a problem in California, but can occur wherever peaches grow. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Early Bloomers Need a fix of flowers to offset the drab colors of winter? Just step outside. By pruning branches from many common deciduous trees and shrubs, you can create beautiful indoor bouquets to serve as harbingers of spring. |
National Gardening |
Small Fruits & Berries 101 Compared with apples, peaches or any of the tree fruits, bush and bramble fruits are easy to grow. They rarely require spraying for pests and begin bearing some fruit the year after you plant them. |
Food Processing August 2007 Ashman & Beckley |
Product Spotlight: Carbonating Fruit Fizzy Fruit Co. adds carbonation to grapes for a unique - and polarizing - experience. |
National Gardening Michael Phillips |
Growing Organic Apples How to grow blemish-free apples without resorting to unfriendly sprays |
Food Processing June 2007 Lee Stiffler-Meyer |
Dried and true Dried products offer a practical way to introduce real fruits into many products -- but first consider the drying technique. |
Food Processing October 2008 |
Perceptions of Fresh Fruit New pear and strawberry flavors offer more satisfying perceptions of fresh fruit. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Persimmons Consider the many virtues of persimmons, one of the most widely grown "exotic" fruits. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Unhealthy Rural Trees? Common sense would say that urban trees are more stressed than their rural counterparts and grow more slowly. However, recent research in New York City is questioning this widespread belief. |
National Gardening Lance Walheim |
How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees... |
National Gardening |
Pruning Trees and Shrubs With a little instruction and some common sense, you'll be able to prune your trees, shrubs, and roses like a pro and have beautifully shaped, flowering plants to boot. |
Seasoned Cooking December 2005 Ronda L. Carnicelli |
Individual Fruit Crisps With a season filled with fussy food and complicated recipes, this is one to print out and put in your stocking: Apple, Cranberry and Pear Crisp. |
Seasoned Cooking April 2007 Ronda L. Carnicelli |
Fresh Fruit with Mascarpone Creme Fresh fruit looks beautiful on a plate -- and tastes delicious when dipped in this rich Italian cream cheese. |
National Gardening Lance Walheim |
What's New With Deciduous Fruit? New tree fruit varieties don't appear very often, but when they do, it usually points to a significant development in flavor, hardiness, or disease resistance. |
The Family Room Monica Resinger |
Potted Christmas Trees - Is It Worth It? Each holiday season, I think about getting a live, potted Christmas tree. I keep thinking that it would sure save a lot of money because we should be able to use it as a Christmas tree for a few years -- as long as I can keep it alive... |
National Gardening Robert Kourik |
Fabulous Figs Which fig tastes best? Is it 'Panachee', 'Celeste', or perhaps 'Conadria'? |
This Old House Lynn Ocone |
Putting Down Roots How to add a tree to your yard---the right way. |
National Gardening |
Choosing Tomato Varieties Healthy, vigorous tomato vines can produce a lot of fruit. But of the thousands of varieties available, how do you narrow your choices? |
Seasoned Cooking August 2005 J. Sinclair |
Peaches When summer rolls around and you want to grab a great snack on the go, there's nothing like a freshly picked juicy peach. And if you've picked a bushel, try these recipes for peach cobbler and, yes, peach mustard. |
Food Processing January 2006 Ashman & Beckley |
Spotlight: Making fruit a treat Peeled Snacks mixes dried fruit, nuts and chocolate to create a craveable snack with the halo of fruits and nuts. But are consumers ready? |
Food Processing February 2009 |
Food Biz Kids: Newtons Fruit Crisps Snacks Are 'Like Little Apple Pies' School kids review the taste of these new snacks |
Inc. March 2009 |
Skip That Phone Tree Fonolo.com has mapped out the automated customer service phone trees of 200 companies. |
Science News August 17, 2002 Janet Raloff |
Fruit: Towards Virtual Taste Tests When it comes to fresh fruit, looks can be deceiving. Federal engineers with the Agricultural Research Service hope to up a buyer's odds with a system they're developing that uses near infrared light to gauge each apple's sweetness and firmness. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
When Good Tomatoes Go Bad Here's a list of eight of the most common tomato fruit problems not caused by insect or disease. |
Seasoned Cooking October 2007 Rossana S. Tarantini |
Crisp fall . . . Autumn is the right time of year to combine warm fruit crisp and cold ice cream for a perfect dessert treat. This special version uses no sugar or wheat, making it accessible to diabetics and those with certain allergies. |
National Gardening Nan Sterman |
Hardy Kiwi Have you tasted these remarkable miniature kiwis yet? Every bit as delicious as the larger, more familiar fuzzy kiwi, hardy kiwis are much easier to grow and eat (skin and all). |
National Gardening Skip Richter |
A Bloomin' Good Show Interested in an idea for a great trip this year? Here's one for gardeners everywhere! Floriade is an international flower exposition held only every 10 years. Floriade 2002 opened in early April and runs through Oct. 20 in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands. |
Popular Mechanics January 26, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Scientists Use Massive Crane to Study Troubled Forests From Above In a study released in last week's Science researchers surveying forests of the American West found that trees are dying at an ever-increasing rate. |
U.S. Banker February 2002 |
Consumer Debt Getting Scary Fifth Third CEO George Schaefer often says, "trees don't grow to the sky." That may be true with trees, but it doesn't seem to be so with consumer credit... |
Seasoned Cooking November 2006 Ronda L. Carnicelli |
Crisp Days Recipe: Double Fruit Crisp: You can either choose an apple-cherry version or a peach-blackberry version. Both are sublime and will make a perfect ending to a special Thanksgiving meal. |