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  • Start Growing Thornless Blackberries: How to Prepare and Select Cultivars for the Mid-Atlantic (FS-2023-0660)

    … with varying levels of sweet and tart flavors. Unlike tree fruits such as apples, peaches, and cherries, … winter. However, they will emerge from dormancy with new leaves and flower buds and eventually fruit in the spring of … Freedom, Prime-Ark® Horizon Prime-Ark® Traveler and Stark® Black Gem®. Pollination requirements Blackberry flowers …

  • Growing Strawberries in a Home Garden

    … pollinate strawberry flowers. The structure of strawberry fruits is unusual compared to other familiar species. Strawberry fruits have many small seeds (achenes) embedded in the fruit … plants by mulching them with straw or mower-shredded tree leaves in late fall when night temperatures approach …

  • Wood Rots and Decay on Trees and Shrubs

    … and branch rots. These fungi cause the heartwood of the tree or shrub to decay. The outward symptoms of stem rots are … basidiocarps on ash, beech, cherry, maple, oak, and tulip tree. Fruiting body on stem Wood rot problems Wood rots cause … rot look for other symptoms. Because the heartwood of a tree is not involved in translocation or storage of sap, …

  • September Tips and Tasks

    … materials. Find out if you can get old bricks, rocks, tree stumps, or containers from neighbors or another local … and fill in. Trees & Shrubs Avoid planting one type of tree or shrub (a monoculture) when planting a living screen … plants are losing a lot of foliage to disease you can pick fruits and ripen them indoors.   Harvest  pumpkins  and  …

  • August Tips and Tasks

    … a healthy root system.   Make a plan to add a new tree to your garden this fall, if feasible. Shade trees help … bugs  are active on tomatoes and peppers. They feed on the fruits producing a yellow or white “cloudy spot” directly … nests found outside, especially if they are located in a tree or an isolated area. These are beneficial creatures that …

  • Vegetable and Fruit News-April 2022

  • Tree Fruit

    … Peach Pear Plum Hard Cider & Ice Wine Production Guides Tree Fruit Pest Management Western Maryland Regional Fruit … State Horticultural Society Virginia Cooperative Extension Tree Fruit PennState Extension Fruit … Tree Fruit …

  • Pruning Tree and Shrub Basics

    … Branching structure of a sycamore tree Updated: September 21, 2023 What is pruning? Pruning is … To improve the quality of flowers and fruit Flowers and fruits may become smaller in size as their production … the wild type, such as strong vertical growth in a weeping tree, those portions should be removed. Small trees …

  • Key to Common Problems of Dogwoods

    … dogwood (Cornus florida) is a relatively small flowering tree that is popular in Maryland home landscapes. Although it … and related Cornus species. Location of Symptoms - Leaves and Petals Powdery Mildew Powdery mildew on flowering … and are about ¼ inch in diameter. Occasionally, very small black dots are visible inside these spots that indicate where …

  • Blackgum, Sourgum, or Tupelo Tree

    … March 6, 2023 About blackgum Nyssa sylvatica Deciduous Tree Dogwood Family Maryland Distribution:  A canopy tree commonly found in forests of wet to average moisture. … by natives bees and honeybees (as in tupelo honey). The fruits are consumed by songbirds, woodpeckers, wild turkeys, …