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Hi, I have identified several fruit slugworms on my cherry tree.  How do I get rid of them? Thanks.

I've been interested in horticulture since an early age but now at the age of 19 i'm thinking of growing some fruit. Before i do so i wouldn't mind getting the opinions of others to see their views on a good fruit to start off on and how i would

Does anybody know where I can buy old fashioned fruit trees that will grow to the size I remember when I was young. Our cherry trees must have been at least 30foot tall and were an amazing site in the spring. All I can find are the dwarf or semi

What's the point of having a compost heap unless it's to breed fruit flies. That's the way my entomologist's mind works. During the summer great clouds of them billowed up every time I dumped the kitchen waste. They got in my eyes and hair

for at least a couple of weeks but hardly any fruit is set. I keep the GH doors open for insects and also go around a couple of times a day tapping the plants to generate the pollen. Because the Marmande seems to be behaving, I suspect these other varieties may

Hi, I'm new to this site and hope someone can help.  I have inherited a garden with several fruit trees, but a couple of them are not fruiting and I don't know what type they are or how to get them producing fruit.  They are not very old I'd say

Hi, new to this forum. We have just become the proud owners of an allotment we have a fruit cage which we have gooseberries, blueberries, raspberry, blackberry, cranberry a nectarine and 2 unidentified small trees. We read our contract and we can

have been having with blackbirds and jays stealing our cherries. As our children have now outgrown their garden trampoline it struck me that the frame and cage would lend itself nicely to perform as a fruit cage with a little modification. The beauty

I am in the process of planting up a new garden from scratch and we planted half a dozen young fruit trees last autumn. We garden on heavy clay which has resulted in parts of the garden resembling a pond on many occasions this year. One of the trees

Home-grown fruit is something I find difficult to resist; fruit trees make great ornamental, as well as edible, plants. I’ve notice that some of my espalier and cordon fruit trees are passed their best, so I’ll have to remove them. This always makes