Getting back into the garden, checking out plants just waking up, inspecting branches then finding shiny little globs on a twig. Scale insects are a sneaky, little-detected, piercing, sucking pest ...

Because these nasty buggers keep showing up in my office, I decided to do a whole article dedicated to them. The plum curculio original native hosts included wild plum, crab apple, cherry, and other ...

People tend to have a love-hate relationship with their fruit trees. The fruit they love; the work they hate. Especially the regimen of spraying turns off home gardeners, said Steve Renquist, ...

Imagine growing your own backyard fruit orchard, but without having to do much in the way of pest control, weed management, or fertilizing because the carefully selected companion plants support and ...