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10 Essential Tips for Winter-Proofing Your Fruit Trees So They'll Thrive in Spring

Unlike garden beds with spring flowers or vegetable patches, fruit trees should not be given slow-release fertilizers or compost before winter. Unless soil test results suggest otherwise, fertilizing ...

Caring for an Apple Tree After Harvest

Once the last apples are harvested and the ladders are put away, it seems the work in the orchard is done. But now is the ...
Orange County Register

What to do when something weird is growing on tree bark

Q. My 20-something-old redbud tree has developed lichens on the trunk, which is a first. Do I have a problem and is there anything I should do? I have another one in the yard which doesn’t have this ...
Seattle Times

There’s something weird growing on my tree’s bark. Is that bad?

Q: My 20-something-old redbud tree has developed lichens on the trunk, which is a first. Do I have a problem and is there anything I should do? I have another one in the yard which doesn’t have this ...
Newspoint on MSN

Apple trees will grow bigger and healthier fruit if 10-minute job is done now in autumn

Apples should be ready to harvest and dropping off the branches in early autumn, but gardeners need to be aware that these ...