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  • Growing Apple Trees In The Home Garden

    NC State University Coop Extension — Growing apple trees in the home garden can be fun and rewarding. Several factors are important to consider before planting for successful apple production. Apple variety and rootstock, site selection, proper planting, training and pruning, ...More…

  • Growing Apple Trees In The Home Garden

    NC State University Coop Extension — Growing apple trees in the home garden can be fun and rewarding. Several factors are important to consider before planting for successful apple production. Apple variety and rootstock, site selection, proper planting, training and pruning, ...More…

  • How to prune Apple trees

    Backyard Gardener — All Apples produce their fruit on "spurs," which are formed on the branches one year old or more, usually in the lower portion of these branches. These "spurs" are developed from the short lateral growths that vary in length from one ...More…

  • Pruning Apple Trees

    DIYnet — Hand pruners come in a variety of styles. This pair has rotating handles. The branch collar is the wrinkled wood close to the trunk. Never cut into the branch collar when pruning. Fruit trees must be pruned every year, usually during the dormant ...More…

  • Spacing Apple Branches

    DIYnet — Lower limbs get more sunlight when you artificially spread the branches. A tree will bear more apples if the sun can reach the lower branches to ripen the fruit, says show host Kim Haworth. So it's to your benefit to open bunches of branches, ...More…

  • 'Pink Fir Apple'

    BBC — Salad potato varieties can be first or second earlies, or maincrops as with 'Pink Fir Apple'. They all share qualities of fine flavour and waxy texture whether eaten hot or cold. They tend to be smaller and lower yielding than other kinds, and ...More…

  • Apple mint

    BBC — There is a wide range of mints available from nurseries, each with a subtly different aroma. Apple mint, as its name implies, has apple-scented foliage. Its leaves are oval, hairy and irregularly wrinkled. Pink or white tubular flowers are ...More…

  • Crab apple

    BBC — Find out how to grow Malus x zumi var. calocarpa 'Golden Hornet' Formerly known simply as M. 'Golden Hornet', this well-known crab apple is a popular choice for gardens where its neat tapering shape and huge crops of conspicuous yellow ...More…

  • Crab apple

    BBC — This beautiful crab apple is covered with white flowers in spring. The flowers open from red buds. In autumn, it gives another show. At this time, the tree is covered in red-flushed, orange- yellow fruits. 'Evereste' is an excellent tree for ...More…

  • Apple

    National Gardening Association — Grow your own apples and you can enjoy crisp, juicy fruit harvested fresh from the tree. Apples require a fair amount of patience and planning. If you want a choice crop, you'll have to control insects, diseases, and other pests, keep an eye on ...More…

  • Crab Apple

    National Gardening Association — Crab apples are small to medium-sized, deciduous trees that are widely adapted and produce an abundance of flowers in spring. There are more than 500 varieties. Crab apples bloom in early to mid-spring, producing masses of pink, red, or white ...More…

  • Apple Diseases

    National Gardening Association — Any of the three fungal diseases described here -- scab, cedar apple rust and powdery mildew -- can cause serious defoliation that threatens not just the quality of your apple crop but the future health of your trees as well. Although you could ...More…


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