Planting fruit trees can bring a bountiful harvest to your yard. You can pick your own apples, peaches, pears, oranges, figs, ...

Of course, growing an apple tree isn't without its challenges. Most need to be pollinated, many are prone to diseases, and you'll need to put in time and effort for them to reach maturity.

This week, Tom advises a reader whose apple and pears trees have been plagued by leaf curl year after year - Alamy ...

Disease, drought, and possibly Prohibition combined to hasten ... Our work connecting the ecological and cultural heritage of apple trees in Boulder County helps to create a living resource that ...

By comparing the sequence of nearly 1,000 genes from each species, the researchers built a family tree of the genus ... with resistance to apple scab, a fungal disease that impacts apples worldwide." ...