Some fruit trees are notorious for producing a big crop one year and a much smaller crop the next. Here's what to know and what you can do about it.

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an ...

If you've never thought about how that apple you're eating, or the vanilla bean in your favorite ice cream, came about, the ...

From family-run farms to orchards growing the juiciest heirloom apples, these are the best places to go apple picking in ...

In 1983, volunteers cleared the area and resurrected the orchard, finding 32 fruit-bearing trees producing 29 varieties of fruit (most of them heirloom apples no longer available in markets today, ...

The Maple Street Food Forest with fruit trees and herbs is set to open. Supreme Court issues ruling impacting Medicaid—what ...

The heirloom trees were found and gathered in an effort headed by Jesús Manuel García-Yánez of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's Kino Fruit Tree project - named for Father Eusebio Francisco ...

In essence, a new tree is thus grown from a single bud. Related: The 7 Easiest Fruit Trees to Grow for a Delicious, Stress-Free Harvest Every Year How to Propagate by Air Layering ...

recalls Cameron Peace, the tree fruit geneticist at Washington State University who coordinated the testing. "It" being the Drap D'Or de Bretagna — or Golden Cloth of Brittany, in French.

Consider Your Climate Fruit trees require a specific number of chill hours—a time where the temperature remains below a certain level—in order to produce fruit after its dormant period. The ...

Since most trees produce their fruit during the summer, it should come as no surprise that they require plenty of sunlight. So choose a full-sun spot where your tree can soak up 6 to 8 hours of ...