Choose a suitable location: Peach trees need six to eight hours of sunlight daily. The soil should be well-draining and rich ...

From your donor tree, take a stem cutting—also called a scion. This is the portion that will grow into the main tree, with the desirable DNA traits you're looking to reproduce (as opposed to the ...

Q: You wrote about people’s peaches and other stone fruit that didn’t mature due to the early & late heavy rains we had last winter. I have a 40-year-old Valencia orange with the oranges still green ...

Phosphorus (P), an element required for plant growth, fruit set, fruit development, and fruit ripening, can be deficient or unavailable in agricultural soils. Previously, it was shown that ...

If you’d love to grow fruit trees but think you don’t have the space, think again. You don’t need an orchard or even a large backyard to enjoy garden-picked fruit. Here are some ways to stop gophers ...

Q: We planted this Satsuma Mandarin Orange two years ago, and last spring it had good foliage and produced two or three small fruit. But now, it appears to lose leaves on lower branches, put out new ...

The soil equivalent of a faecal microbiome transplant and the effect of sprinkling rock dust are to both be tested at scale in tree-planting schemes to see if they can turbocharge the amount of carbon ...

Science, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1880 and published by AAAS, today ranks as the world's largest circulation general science journal. Published 51 times a year, Science is renowned for its ...