With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question is how to propagate an apple tree from ...

This week, I decided to try air layering a very old apple tree. I’m not sure what variety it is, but the fruit is delicious. Air layering is an age-old process of propagating plants that involves ...

Cosmic Crisp bud placed in notch of rootstock tree will be wrapped in plastic to heal in. Next spring the stem will be cut off above the new bud to grow a Cosmic Crisp tree. EPHRATA, Wash. — Ricardo ...

With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question we receive is how to propagate an apple ...

Q. I want to cut stems from my apple tree and use them to start new trees. I have tried this for several years with no success. I have even used rooting hormone powders, but they did not help. What do ...

There's nothing more charming than a great big apple tree standing centre stage in your garden. And whilst they're sturdy growers, knowing how to take care of them properly is the key to an impressive ...

The year is 1666 and, as mathematician Sir Isaac Newton takes a stroll around his family home of Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, he sees an apple fall to the ground. The rest, as they say, is ...

Allan Chelimo tends to his fruit seedlings and fruits at his farm in Kiplombe, Uasin Gishu County on 9-03-2016 . The farmer sales seedlings to farmers ranging from Sh 50 to Sh 400. He urged farmers to ...