MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida on care of peach trees, phalaenopsis orchids, tropical fruit trees, ...

Q. In your recommendations to protect developing peach fruit from insects, you usually mention spraying malathion every week — is that necessary? What about one of the organic insecticides?

Unfortunately, many pests love fruit trees and can easily damage leaves and spoil harvests. However, there are ways to get rid of these problematic visitors—without using harmful pesticides. For ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Someone checking on their apple tree - D3sign/Getty Images When it comes to planting fruit-bearing trees around your home, few ...

After a few years of watching and waiting for a peach tree I planted to bear fruit, it finally did this year. Unfortunately, it was unable to produce during those first few years because of peach leaf ...

Two insects tend to be the most prevalent pests in our area’s fruit trees: the codling moth (apples) and the western cherry fruit fly (cherries). Both create “wormy” fruit, and both, once the “worm” ...

Thrips are tiny (around 1/20 inch long) slender insects that cause mostly cosmetic damage to leaves, fruit, and flowers.