Aggie researcher David Byrne has been working for years on new varieties peaches at this orchard near College Station. The trees are being sold to the public this year. Spring peach blossoms create a ...

Do you have a nectarine tree that has a history of producing scarred misshapen fruit? If so, the damage to the fruit is probably caused by Western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) and the ...

Question: Our nectarine tree has lots of blooms. Isn’t this too early for the tree to flower and will we get early fruits? Answer: It is a good bet your nectarine tree has lost a lot of its leaves, ...

Washington ranks No. 2 in the country for growing nectarines, but many believe the state is first when it comes to quality. And the popularity of nectarines is causing Robin French of Ray French ...

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 ...

In his quarter-acre garden, Drew Bohan has more varieties of fresh fruit than any supermarket — currently 70, and growing. That includes six kinds of peaches growing on one tree and eight different ...

Peaches and nectarines are summer’s kissing cousins. In fact, they’re so closely related that occasionally a peach tree will bear nectarines and vice versa. Essentially, the difference between the two ...

Although summer is winding down, there are still some fruits out there well worth buying, and nectarines from California are among them. I always talk about maturity as the key to getting the very ...

Q: I have three peach trees that resemble something out of a Dr. Seuss adventure. They have long bare branches with poms-poms out at the ends and many of the branches broke off this summer when they ...