How to improve cross-pollination
It’s easy to enhance and improve cross-pollination for your target species. These different tips will help you cross-pollinate plants.
Apple tree
Apples are the world’s most famous fruit. Grow this delicious healthy snack right in your garden, balcony or deck!
Wooed by an apple tree
Want to discover how enjoyable it is to sink your teeth into an apple from your very own garden? Planting a formed apple tree is the first step, and you’ll know that crunchy bite as soon as next fall!
Which fruit trees will do best in my garden?
Growing space, climate, altitude, soil quality are additional factors to consider when choosing the fruit tree that will enhance your garden.
Pruning apple and pear trees
Winter and the very beginning of spring are the most auspicious season for pruning a pear tree and an apple tree.
Best practices to enhance fruit harvest
Why does a fruit tree’s blooming already share much about the quality of its fruit-bearing? How can we enhance the fruit harvest? Pollination plays a critical role in the formation of fruits.
Harvesting and keeping 4 key fruit crops in Fall
September is a generous month, harvests are plentiful: apples, pears, walnuts, chestnuts… Sometimes, when we don’t know how to keep them, we don’t even try to harvest them and let them go to waste.
How to store apples – from the harvest until many months later
One fruit has what it takes to keep for many a long month, just for us to savor it deep into the heart of winter: the apple.
Winter pruning of pip fruit trees
Although pruning is definitely a human invention, and trees can go without it to develop naturally, it presents the advantage of renewing the plant’s vigor and increasing its fruit productivity.
Apple health benefits: vitamins, digestion and hypotensive
Once upon a time the symbol of the forbidden fruit, apple today is recommended for its many health benefits.
Apple tree, the joy of biting your own sweet, crunchy apples
The apple tree is among the most common fruit trees found in our orchards.
Plant fruit trees!
Cherries, apples, pears… What a joy it is to harvest the fruits from your own garden! Fall is the perfect season for planting fruit trees.
Cross-pollination, when genes mix to breed new plants
Cross-pollination is when pollen from one plant variety fertilizes flowers of another variety,
Pruning an apple tree or pear tree into an espalier shape
Pruning apple and pear trees to espalier or palmette is an interesting way to raise fruit productivity for apples and pears, and also to cover a wall.
Fruit-inducing pruning, how to produce more fruit
Fruit inducing pruning is an important step in the growth of your fruit tree and gives you control over its productivity.
Scab, everything you need to know about it
A fungal disease that strikes terror in the heart of orchards, scab can be diagnosed when brown spots appear on fruits.
Codling moth, the fruit worm
Codling moth is often called “fruit worm”. It is actually a type of caterpillar that feeds on the fruit’s flesh.
European brown rot, rotting fruit, techniques and treatments to avoid and cure the disease
European brown rot is a fungal disease caused by fungus that attacks fruit trees and can seriously impact harvests.
Kill off diseases on fruit trees over winter with these treatments
Fall and Winter are the time to apply various treatments that will help eliminate parasites and fungus from fruit trees. This will reduce risk of disease in Spring.
Ornamental apple tree, flowers galore
The flower apple tree or ornamental apple tree is a magnificent tree to decorate a garden, even though it doesn’t produce any palatable fruits.
Pruning an apple tree or pear tree
These kings of the orchard deserve a knowing hand when it comes to pruning apple and pear trees to increase harvest, keep diseases away and produce high-quality fruits. This peppy and instructive short video will make you an expert! Read more ►
A profusion of blooms with flower apple trees
What is more beautiful in a garden than the blooming of fruit trees? With flower apple trees, small spaces and amateur gardeners can also take advantage of it.
Scab, avoiding the disease
Often called apple scab, this fungus is responsible for important damage to this fruit tree, but also to plum trees and pear trees.
