Improve your harvest by addressing these common obstacles. If you planted fruit trees dreaming of harvesting juicy pears, pie-ready apples, and sweet summer peaches fresh from your own backyard ...

Of all the fruit trees you can grow in your yard, pear trees are some of the slower to produce a crop. Having the incorrect ...

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pears (European and Asian), and stone fruits (peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, pluots, and cherries). Apple trees are commonly affected by fire blight, apple scab, fruit rots, rusts, and powdery ...

As part of our Plot to Plate series, Le Manoir’s Head Orchard Gardener Paula Fleming shares tips for growing, pruning and ...

When ripe, they will change color (usually from green to gold) and will give slightly when you press your thumb against the top of the fruit. Asian pears can be allowed to ripen on the tree ...

We show you how to get started. The most commonly planted fruit trees are apple trees but you don't always have to follow convention. Pear, plum, fig and medlar trees can also produce good results.

UK-grown pears, quince and medlars follow. It is worth buying unfamiliar varieties of tree fruit, especially apples, as some will only be around for a week or two. All tree fruit should feel heavy ...

And those trees that did produce fruit often suffered rust spots on the pears. "It's still very edible. But because of these cosmetic issues, it means you take a loss by sending it to be packed ...

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The harvest season for apples and pears is in full swing - and it's not just in private gardens that people are picking. Fruit can also be collected from meadow orchards and urban gardening sites.