Pruning apple trees has many benefits. It can prevent damaged tree limbs from harming other branches and increase airflow ...

Is your fruit tree looking sick or bearing bad fruit? Fruit tree diseases are common: Here's how to identify the problem so you can effectively treat your tree.

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension is holding its annual horticulture classes for those wanting to volunteer as ...

For established trees: First remove dead, dying and diseased wood. Then look for water sprouts (the weak limbs that grow straight up) and thin those out. That will take care of a significant ...

Pruning is my favorite gardening task, and now is a suitable time to start pruning shrubs that have put on growth and need ...

In Master Gardener Michael Janik’s July Fruit Tree Care and Gardening Newsletter he reminds readers that University of Nevada ...

Members will be told that the diseased trees have become a “public safety concern”, because of the ability of apple canker to weaken and kill individual branches, making them more prone to ...

This diversity ensures resistance — among at least some of the tree’s offspring — to a wide spectrum of stressors such as drought, flooding, cold, disease, or insect pest infestation.