European brown rot, rotting fruit, techniques and treatments to avoid and cure the disease
European brown rot or rotting fruit is a disease caused by fungus that attacks fruit trees and can seriously impact harvests.
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Which fruit trees will do best in my garden?
Available growing space, altitude, soil quality are additional factors to consider when choosing the tree that will enhance your garden.
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!
Keeping pears over the winter and beyond
Starting in September, October and sometimes even November if the climate is mild enough, pears are harvested. Learn to store and keep them well.
Acerola, power-packed vitamin C
Acerola, also called Barbados cherry, is a red-colored fruit renowned and appreciated for its high levels of vitamin C.
Walnut, growing delicious walnuts
The walnut tree is a fantastic fruit-bearing tree which is also very ornamental.
Blackberry bush and blackberries, delicious small summer fruits
Blackberry shrubs offer delicious blackberries if you care for them well. Basic blackberry facts Name – Rubus fruticosus Family – Rosaceae Type – fruit shrub Height – 3 to 10 feet (1 to 3 m) Exposure – full sun, part sun Soil – rich enough Foliage – deciduous Flowering – June-July Harvest – August to October Planting, […]
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.
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.
Alsace Damson plum trees
The Alsace damson plum tree, magnificent from spring to fall, offers abundant harvests of damsons.
Currant and red currant bushes, growing delicious currants
Currant bushes, some of which are called gooseberries, produce marvelous small currant berries in summer.
Quince tree, where the quince comes from
Quince tree is a very beautiful fruit tree, that bears nice fruits called quinces.
Apricot tree, producing delicious apricots
The apricot tree is a wonderful fruit tree that requires a bit of care to produce beautiful apricots, but it’s easy to grow.
Persimmon, the kaki tree
The persimmon tree is a unique tree that produces marvelous fruits in fall.
Raspberry bushes, delicate fruits
Raspberry is easy to grow and the harvest is abundant.
Nectarine, the tree that bears nectarines
The nectarine tree belongs to the same family as the peach tree, and it is an exceptional fruit tree that calls for a little care before harvesting the nectarines.
Peach tree, growing delicious peaches
Peach tree is an exceptional fruit tree that calls for some care to produce a nice peach harvest.
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.
Medlar, a fruit tree to rediscover
The medlar is a fruit tree that has long been forgotten but deserves to be rediscovered by all!
Actinidia, the kiwi tree
Kiwi is a delicious fruit to savor and it’s also filled with vitamin C.
Bigarreau cherry tree, the ultimate cherry
The bigarreau cherry tree produces beautiful cherries, sweet and fleshy and firm, and its productivity is abundant.
Beurré Hardy pear tree, early and abundant
The ‘Beurre Hardy’ pear tree is one of the earliest fruits for harvest in orchards at the end of summer.
Plum tree, how to have great plums
Plum tree is magnificent from spring to fall, and offers abundant harvests of plums.
All about Strawberry from sowing to harvest
A strawberry plant produces fruits with a tender and fragrant flesh, which bring to mind thoughts of summer, sun and refreshing snacks.
How to keep 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.
Fruit flies, how to fight them
Very small flies score the fruits with their ovipositor to deposit their eggs inside. These eggs will hatch inside the fruit, and the larvae will eat
Almond tree, amazing when blooming
The almond tree is a simply magnificent fruit tree, famous for its spectacular pink-white blooming.
Cherry tree, an easy and generous fruit tree
Cherry trees are among the most common fruit trees found in our orchards.
Blackcurrant, small but bountiful
Blackcurrant is a shrub that produces a delicious fruit: sweet black currant berries.
Fig tree, a summer-loving fruit tree
The fig tree is an amazing fruit tree with very unique leaves.
Grapevine, producing nice bunches of grapes
Grapevine is a beautiful fruit tree, offering us grapes at the end of summer.
Apricots, little bites of sun
A few words about apricots in France… 2012 apricot production in France – 160,900 tons 1 Production areas in France – Languedoc-Roussillon, the Rhône river area, the Mediterranean coastal areas.
Organic treatments for your fruit trees
Do you have a garden with fruit trees and you’d like to get a bit more organic? Preserving and protecting nature is getting more and more attractive, most of all for our own dear little children.
