Some of these fast-growing trees produce sweet, colorful fruits, while others may have a more bitter yield that has other ...

These fruit trees are fast growers that can be major players in your garden, though it will take a little time and care for ...

Horticulture experts and master gardeners share what you need to know about picking pumpkins at their peak ripeness.

It’s apple season in Michigan. But that’s not all. There’s a “secret fruit” ready for harvest. Michigan’s native pawpaw trees ...

Avocado, guava, jaboticaba, mango and starfruit — though their flavors are exotic, they can easily be grown here in the home garden. These tropicals tolerate temperatures to around 27 degrees ...

Farming is undergoing a remarkable transformation thanks to cutting-edge technologies reshaping how fruit is picked and handled. While autonomous drones like Tevel’s Flying Robots are already ...

Fruit tastes better when it's ripe, but what is ripe and how do you get there? We need to define a few terms that you'll encounter when reading fruit catalogs and other publications. Mature is the ...

In a quiet Northeast Portland backyard recently, the soft thump of falling apples punctuated light chitchat as volunteers from the Portland Fruit Tree Project picked the fruit before it went bad. Why ...

Mechanical harvesting of fruit trees represents a transformative approach to modern orchard management. By applying controlled vibrational excitations, these systems selectively detach ripe fruit ...

Scientists have shown for the first time the widespread harm caused in Peru by cutting down the palm tree Mauritia flexuosa in order to harvest its fruit. The scientists examined where and why the ...