Cherry tree – grow delicious cherries

The complete June Gardening Guide

Ah – June in the garden! Summer’s on its way and the garden goes through one of the most beautiful periods of the year. Flowers are in full bloom, shrubs are in their growth phase, fruit trees hint at how plentiful the harvest will be and the vegetable patch is already producing nice vegetables.

Top 5 spring-blooming trees

They catch the eye along streets and in parks and gardens. Learn how to recognize these five happily common spring-blooming trees.

July garden tasks for a fulfilling summer

Summer is there and the garden has settled in! The month of July gifts us a multitude of colors, tastes and fragrances as we go about gardening.

Summer care for fruit trees

Over the summer, don’t pass on the few chores that will lead your orchard and vegetable patch to abundant and high-quality harvests. Just a few hour’s worth of care and your fruit trees will thrive!

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.

Increase fruit harvest - a basket of apples.

Aphids, how to get rid of them?

Aphids are fearsome insects that attack leaves and feed on plant sap. There are natural ways to treat against them. Leaves curl up and become sticky.

Cherry tree, an easy and generous fruit tree

Cherry trees are among the most common fruit trees found in our orchards.

A few cherries hanging from a branch on a cherry tree.

Wild cherry, cherries for the birds

Wild cherry is a very beautiful wild tree that is known for its wood and fruits.

Bigarreau cherry tree, the ultimate cherry

The bigarreau cherry tree produces beautiful cherries, sweet and fleshy and firm, and its productivity is abundant.

Cherries of the bigarreau variety are darker in color.

Cherry fly, techniques & treatments to avoid it

The bug often called “cherry fruit fly” is a tiny fly that lays eggs on ripening cherries. It’s also called the “cherry maggot“. Generally, this happens end of May or beginning of June, and can last until July.

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.