I’m concerned with my purple leaf plum tree. ... You have a little monster called peach tree borer. Peach tree borer is the most common serious insect pest in trees such as yours.

Afterwards, peach, pear, and plum trees typically only need to be watered once every week and a half in dry conditions. These fruit trees also have a similar preferred soil pH value: around 6 to 7.

A fruit tree can be a friend or foe; it's all about understanding its needs. Peach, plum, or pear: here's the fertilizer your tree needs and how to apply it.

Ben Young of Young’s Greenhouse shares his passion for fruit trees, tips for planting, and how his orchard grew from just one ...

Hence, when I moved to a home on 2/3 of an acre 5 years ago I had fewer spaces for fruit, but since the quality of fresh fruit is hard to beat, I planted 5 citrus trees, a ‘Red Haven’ Peach ...

This year, peach trees throughout New England have no fruit because a cold snap on Feb. 8 killed all the buds on peach, plum and nectarine trees. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer.

“We currently have two peach trees in our orchard so these 50 will be a tremendous boost,” Beasley said. “Three to four years from now, ... The garden already had pear and plum trees.

A: That’s peach leaf curl. It’s a bacterial infection that overwinters on the tree’s twigs, then infects the new growth in the spring. It doesn’t do a lot of damage, but if you want to try ...