In locations like Florida, California, and Arizona, September kicks off citrus season. Here's how to care for your citrus ...

Fertilizing was an important year-round task to ensure that the potted trees remained healthy and performing at their best,' he adds. Drew notes that it's key to feed citrus trees throughout the ...

Anecdotally promoted as food for potted plants and a booster for lawns, a new application popping up online is spraying apple tree leaves with the beverage. Is this potential fertilizer worth a ...

Return the liquid to a pot over high heat and boil until it reduces by half.6. Store any homemade citrus pectin that you will not be using right away in the freezer, or can it in half-pint jars in ...

Fifty-one species of fungi found on citrus trees are described as new to science; this is a somewhat daring piece of work in the comparative absence of literature and herbaria. It must be borne in ...

A version of this story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Citrus, in many ways, stands alone. So many cultivated species have come from so few primary ancestors.

The first citrus trees appeared about eight million years ago, before spreading around the world, say international scientists. The trees eventually gave rise to the fruit on our kitchen tables ...

It looks like bird droppings on a leaf, but don't be fooled: it's a caterpillar in disguise. This seemingly innocent creature causes devastation in some agricultural communities, eating young citrus ...

With the challenges to growing citrus that citrus greening presents ... I recently came across a fruit tree that was new to me but not necessarily new to Florida that piqued my interest.

Don’t you just love it when you walk into a home and it feels warm and inviting, but you can’t actually point out why? Here are 5 easy and inexpensive ways that you can create the same ...