Peach and nectarine trees flower extremely early in the year ... depending on the variety. Encourage more fruit by pollinating open blooms by hand using a soft brush, particularly as few insects ...

Grow your own peach tree with this step-by-step guide. There’s something about eating fresh, ripe fruit that makes us ... months to ensure proper leaf and flower bud development the following ...

The fact that apples grown from seedling trees are extremely tart and basically inedible — as opposed to cloned or grafted ...

In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing ... houses,” the greenhouses where the earl’s precious fruit grows out of season, warmed by hot-water pipes.

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Peach lovers rejoice, there is some good news about the popular fruit. Peaches in the North Okanagan have been hit hard by Old Man Winter the past few years, resulting in crop loss and no locally g ...