Peaches, nectarines, apricots, Asian pears, plums, and apples do better if you thin them out You may have noticed that at certain times during the growing season, local grape farmers “drop crop.” That ...

While it is exciting and gratifying to see all the new fruit appearing on your trees in the spring, it is necessary to remove some immature fruit in order to get the large, strong, healthy fruit you ...

Those of us who have fruit trees have been enjoying their beautiful flowers for the last few weeks. Now that there’s piles of pink petals all over the ground, it’s time to think about thinning that ...

Thinning the fruit on your trees will pay you big dividends, giving you the largest, sweetest annual crops. Only 5 percent of a tree's flowers need to set fruit to provide a generous crop. Most fruit ...

It is time to start thinking about thinning the fruit on peach, nectarine, plum, pluot, apricot, apple and pear trees. To produce fruit that is large and healthy, fruit trees need plenty of leaves to ...

If you have peaches and nectarines, now is the time to start removing fruit so that the remaining fruit gets larger. Remove fruit that are gumdrop sized so that the fruit remaining on the limb is at ...

Chemically thinning tree fruit is becoming a more viable and versatile way to increase marketable yield and substantially reduce labor costs, participants in a recent Idaho State Horticultural Society ...

Answer: The good news is that you have fruit this year! Late freezes, gusty winds and hail storms have taken their toll on the crop load this spring. It snowed in Farmington on May 21. A friend with ...