An international team led by researchers has sequenced the genome of the almond tree and compared it to that of its closest relative, the peach tree. The most substantive differences between these ...

EAST TEXAS, Texas (KLTV/KTRE) - Most everyone knows the best time to plant potted trees and shrubs in the landscape is in the fall through winter, but during the later winter and spring, local ...

“All major fruit tree species tend to do better with spring planting,” Slack says. But it’s important to work around frost ...

Companion planting vegetables with certain other plants can deter garden pests and make veggies more productive without fertilizers or pesticides. You can apply this same concept when growing fruit ...

At one point in time, Kansas was an exporter of fruits in the Unites States. According to the Kansas Fruit Growers Association, in 1880, the Kansas State Board of Agriculture reported 2,386,812 apple, ...

Q. I recently moved into a new home that had several fruit trees, and I have added more fruit trees this spring. How can I tell which fruit trees in my new home will need pollinators and which won’t?

The almond tree and the peach tree are two well-known species, since human beings have been eating their fruit (peach) or seed (almond) for thousands of years. Although at first sight the products of ...