Dealing with Apple Diseases
Like all food crops, apple trees are susceptible to various fungal diseases. Your best weapons against these are best planting practices, which help prevent disease in the first place. …
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Winterizing your Apple Trees
Your apple trees will benefit from a little TLC to get through the winter. Final Harvest :Be sure you’ve picked the tree clean and removed any fallen apples from around …
Harvesting & Storing your Apples
Harvest time for your apple trees will depend on a number of factors: the cultivar, the crop load on the tree, and your location. In general, apple harvest season can …
Nurturing your Apple Trees
Once your apple trees are settled in—whether it’s in a container, a raised bed, or open ground—consistency is key when it comes to watering. Apple trees like about an inch …
Growing Apple Trees in Containers
Apple trees can flourish in containers. There are dwarf varieties that have been developed to give you full-size apples in a compact space. And with a little prudent pruning, you …
Planting Apple Trees in the Ground
Apples need lots of sunshine in order to thrive; six to eight hours a day. They also need well-drained soil with a pH of 6.0 to 7.0. You want your …
Where to Grow Apples
Apple trees love sunshine and fertile, well-draining soil. They like a soil pH between 6.0 and 7.0. They need full sun in order to thrive; it’s essential to the growth …
Growing Apples from Seeds, Grafting, or Saplings
Can you grow apples from seed? Yes. Should you? Probably not. Apple trees grown from seed will not be the same as the tree from which the source apple came; …
Types of Apples
There are two general categories of apples: dessert or fresh eating apples; and culinary apples for cooking, baking, and canning. There are some apples that are cultivated specifically for making …
Crabby About Apples
Every Fall in my part of Winnipeg, Manitoba, people peddle—by which I mean, try to give away—surplus crabapples. Judging by the zeal with which the bulging bags are foisted upon …
