Matt Mattia used both hands to flip through the branch at his eye level, studying each side of every leaf as sunlight ...

Our fruit trees were crushed under a large fallen branch from a huge fig and my mission was to remove the debris and save the ...

Discover how to effortlessly enhance your home garden with our guide on 5 fruit trees that are incredibly easy to grow.

Now, hope is budding on an unlikely branch: a 30-year-old tree named Donaldson, growing on a research farm near Groveland.

South Dade residents interested in learning more about the variety of fruit that is grown in the area may want to check out the 2025 Summer Fruit Festival at Preston ...

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Many trees survived the disease but produced bitter, unusable fruit. Donaldson, however, delivered both resilience and sweetness — exactly what Florida growers need. But disease isn’t the only ...

Over in Miami Shores, Peel is letting fruit-laden guests swap five pounds of mangoes for a small bowl of its signature banana ...

Both counties currently grow a lot of the same crops. Some of the diseases are the same, too, such as blueberry anthracnose.

Much of the money will go to marketing and research designed to reduce plant diseases that threaten citrus groves.

The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on ...