Q: I read your column in our local newspaper every week and find it to be very helpful. We had a bad problem with apple maggots in two of our apple trees the last two years. Last spring, we sprayed ...

Q: My apple tree is healthy, but the past few years the insides of the apple fruits are full of brown streaks that I understand are caused by worms. The apples are very unappetizing. Is there a way to ...

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, ...

Before you go picking apples this time of year, take a closer look at the fruit. Gardeners often use fake apples, coated with a sticky goo, to fool apple maggots.These insects cause the fruit to ...

Last month I described the apple maggot, an insect that is causing big problems for Western Washington fruit growers. It gets into apples and tunnels around in the flesh, spoiling the fruit. This year ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - A bill signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jay Inslee renews funding for treatments to control apple maggot, a pest that poses a significant threat to the shipment of apples from ...

On the morning of Aug 10, I inspected the various apple maggot sticky traps deployed in my dozen apple trees. Most are made of real (no pun intended) Red Delicious apples skewered on coat-hanger wire ...

If you grow apples in your back yard, you probably already know about apple maggots, the pests that leave fruit an inedible, mushy brown mess. Apple maggots hang out in the ground through the winter ...

Q: I have three goodland apple trees. They are an excellent apple for eating and cooking. However, this year the apples have a brown discoloration in the meat of the fruit. This discoloration looks ...