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What trees to plant in February — 5 of the best fruit and ornamental varieties you should be planting now
The best time to plant bare-root fruit trees like apples is towards the end of winter or the first half of spring, once the ...
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Garden: Want to grow apple trees? Here are ideal times to plant and varieties to consider
There are many reasons why a gardener might choose to plant a few apple trees in the home landscape, but the most compelling reason is probably the ability to grow varieties of apples that are not ...
When apple trees fail to bear
The apple crop was extremely variable this year. Some trees produced beautiful crops of apples while others produced a small crop or, in some cases, a crop of very small apples. There were also ...
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Improving apple varieties was a major endeavor for settlers
Paul Locher explains how valuable apples were on the frontier of Ohio Country in the early 1800s, and how settlers improved varieties.
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This native Michigan apple tree could hold the key to saving apples from climate change
The Malus coronaria learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties of apples like Honeycrisp or Red Delicious. Michigan State ...