Growing your own fruit is both rewarding and challenging. There's an art to getting the growing environment right for your fruit trees so they can produce plenty of juicy fruit. Pomegranate trees ...

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? This question makes me smile because it is both. The same can be said of cucumbers, ...

Not all trees have the same care requirements, and that's especially true for fruit trees. To get the most bountiful yield, ...

Self-fertile trees will produce fruit without the need for another tree to pollinate it. If your tree is not self-fertile it will need to be paired with another one. Trees can be bought either in ...

Japanese researchers have succeeded in fertilising pear trees using pollen carried on the thin film of a soap bubble. They've been searching for alternative approaches to pollination, because of ...

Southern Housing plants 30+ fruit trees in Battle for a cross-district community orchard, enhancing biodiversity.

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...

The snapping of boughs and battering of fences are not the only damage high winds can cause in gardens. Spring winds, meanwhile, disrupt the pollination of fruit trees by limiting insect activity, ...