Among the pleasures of being a UC Master Gardener are the monthly seminars, where we are instructed by experts. Some of these authorities are homegrown; others are imported. One recent speaker was ...

Get rid of dead or damaged branches and keep the tree's size in check. If you look forward to harvesting fruit from your own apple trees to make jams, pies, and jars of apple butter, the first step is ...

A hands-on workshop explaining how to graft fruit trees will be 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Iowa State University/Scott County Extension Office, 875 Tanglefoot Lane, Bettendorf. Patrick ...

LEBANON — Leyah Miller carefully slides a knife blade into the center of a small tree limb and grafts a gravenstein apple twig onto it. “It’s pretty interesting learning how to combine the two limbs,” ...

As you start to think of Spring time weather, you may begin looking around the yard making a to-do list to accomplish. One of those looming tasks may be finally “attacking” that old apple tree. Late ...