Sometimes a tree will look great for a few years and then, due to crowding from surrounding shrubs or other trees, start to ...

Q: You have always said to add watering days instead of more water per application. During the hottest September on record, the water district ads told us to water fewer days (three in fall and one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When watering the plants in our gardens, many of us often overlook a particular plant type: trees. It's easy to assume that the ...

Use this guide to give your fruit trees just the right amount of water year-round. Providing the right amount of water to new and established plantings of fruit trees is key if you want your trees to ...

Q My pear trees are drooping and looking bad. I am watering but they are not getting any better. Is something else wrong? A It can be one or more things wrong at the same time. Fruit trees and ...

Knowing how to water your fruit trees properly is the key to keeping them healthy and productive -- from timing to technique, here's how the experts do it.

Q: We have pine trees on our street that are 20-plus years old and 50 feet tall. We obviously want to ensure their survival as we try to conserve water. Approximately how many gallons of water would ...

Q: Our roots are firmly planted in old East Sacramento, where many new trees have been planted when mature, sickly Modesto ash trees were lost. Can our younger trees survive the summer months with ...

A lot of trees and plants are suffering because of the extreme, prolonged heat and drought conditions, agriculture specialists say. "We're seeing mature trees, and especially recently planted trees, ...

Precision irrigation robot shows how soil variation changes water needs, reducing waste and boosting orchard efficiency.

Many of us stop watering our lawns during summer allowing the grass to go dormant. It’s not a problem for the lawn because the grass will green back up when the rains return in fall, but the same ...