The Grumpy Gardener answers a reader’s question on why their mango tree is producing bitter fruit. Plus, Grumpy’s gripe of the week. Well, Deb, unless you have a chain saw, you can't. But, perhaps you ...

Plant a mango tree in a warm and tropical climate and it will flourish. The trees can grow large and produce a great crop of ...

I decided to cut down a mango tree that I planted over 15 years ago after people started climbing it to pick fruit and caused various other troubles. The tree’s canopy once provided cool shade, and ...

Q: We really enjoyed your article about fruit trees. We have a 23-year-old mango tree which is about 15 feet tall and 15 feet wide, it definitely bears more fruit every other year. We have never ...

Julie asks: My mango tree put out tons of fruit last year. This year’s flowers are fewer, and they look terrible. The fruit that does start forming is dropping off. What’s going on and what can I do ...

No matter if you are a commercial grower or a backyard tropical fruit enthusiast, if you have a fruit tree, you want fruit. The number one question I receive — I am the commercial tropical fruit agent ...

Mango season is nearly upon us, that annual ritual of pungent juices dripping onto the chin, of begging friends and family for a spare fruit or two, of driving slowly along back streets to check out ...

Q: My husband is freaking out because there is no fruit on his Kent mango tree. He has a green thumb and says he had beautiful flowers, but now no fruit. He checked a neighbor down the street, no ...

Amelia Saltsman spends a lot more time at farmers markets than you do. Unless you’re a farmer, at any rate, in which case you probably know Saltsman and have maybe talked to her for her first book, ...

Mango season in Miami is an idyllic time, when tasty red and yellow fruits ripen on trees, fall to earth, and in some cases, provoke neighbors to nearly bust down doors with claims of theft. Take, for ...