If you have the time and don’t have a huge apple orchard, there is another organic way to grow apples. This method was developed in western Minnesota. After thinning the fruit in early to mid-June, ...

Over the last weekend of July, I deployed 12 apple maggot traps in my home orchard. Ideally, they should have been up by mid-June, but a trip to Turkey foiled that timing. However, apple maggot flies ...