Seeking a fast-growing fruit tree for your yard? If you love birds and baking, consider a tart cherry tree (Prunus cerasus). Likely growing 1 to 2 feet per year, it can start producing fruit in 2 to 3 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large backyard orchard with a variety of fruit trees - Sofia Buzzarello/Shutterstock If you live in a warm climate and love ...

Growing fruit trees can be one of the most satisfying experiences a gardener can have. The reward of harvesting juicy, fresh fruit is generally why many choose to cultivate these trees. Yet after ...

Fruit trees may not produce fruit due to improper tree vigor, often caused by over-fertilization or excessive pruning. Frost damage can prevent fruit set, even if flowers open; choose later-blooming ...

Q: Have you seen a reduced fruit set in plums, apricots and pluots this year or is it just mine? These are 3- to 5-year-old trees and I did not see many flowers at all. Not so much lack of pollination ...

Have you ever noticed that your backyard apple or pear tree produces a large quantity of fruit one year, but a disappointingly small crop the next? This common occurrence is known as alternate bearing ...

Q: I would like a Gala apple tree to match my two Anna apple trees. They are about 12 feet apart. How far from them can I plant the Gala tree, and will there be a problem with cross-pollination or ...

Q: I have two dwarf avocado trees. One bears little to no fruit. The other doesn’t grow much or bear fruit. I live in Moreno Valley. My soil is mainly decomposed granite. Any suggestion to increase ...

Q. Last year I had about a dozen apples on our tree. This spring it flowered so profusely it looked like a snowball and now it has so many apples we had problems with limbs breaking. It's had more ...

Growing fruit trees can be rewarding; knowing why fruit doesn’t ripen helps ensure a healthy, abundant harvest. Poor pollination, pests, or lack of sunlight can keep fruit from developing fully, so ...

Tree fruits can be challenging to grow. One frequent problem is why home fruit trees are not producing fruit. Here are potential causes and what you can do to correct the issues. Tree vigor. This ...