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Growing Great Apples

Thu, 10/10/2024 - 12:00

Jo Daviess Extension office

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Growing Great Apples

Thu, 10/10/2024 - 12:00

Freeport Public Library

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Growing Great Apples

Thu, 10/10/2024 - 12:00

Jo Daviess Extension office

apple in a hand

Growing Great Apples

Thu, 10/10/2024 - 12:00

Freeport Public Library

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Growing Great Apples

Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:00

Cherry Valley Library

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Growing Great Apples

Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:00

Cherry Valley Library

apple in hand on white backdrop

Blog Posts (87)

From St. Louis Metro East: The four big weekends leading up to Halloween

strawberry plants planted in rows on black plastic mulch

From Northern Illinois (Rockford): Heavy apple crop this year might cause biennial fruiting of some varieties

lots of red apples hanging on limbs of tree

Burr knot tendency is an undesirable apple characteristic

Young apple tree trunk with rough patches and human hand beside for size comparison.

From St. Louis Metro East: 'Honeycrisp' apple showing unusually good color development for southern Illinois

many red apples on tree

From Northern Illinois (Rockford): Seasonal environmental stresses showing up in various crops

small tiny light green leaves growing out of white flower

Pawpaw: America's tropical treasure

Pawpaw: America's tropical treasure pawpaw fruit in tree canopy leaves turning yellow

From St. Louis Metro East: Field corrections needed in some locations after heavy rains

young tree trunk in a hole

From Northern Illinois (Rockford): Growers preparing for the upcoming u-pick apple season

young apple fruits growing on tree

From Northern Illinois (Rockford): Apple crop developing as expected

row of apple trees in an orchard

Potato leafhoppers are moving into Illinois

small green bug on a leaf

From Dixon Springs Ag Center: Crop development looking good in high tunnels

tomatoes and flowers growing in raised beds inside high tunnel

From Southwestern Illinois (Waterloo): Example of periodical cicada damage on apple trees

two periodical cicadas on an apple tree limb

Suggested spray schedule for peach trees without fruit

peach trees is an orchard with green leaves

Management recommendations of periodical cicadas for commercial tree fruit growers

large insects on a tree branch

St. Louis Metro East Update: 2024 season is running well ahead of average

People using a tractor and tree planter to plant peach tree samplings in a field

Assessing Freeze Damage on Peaches

pink peach blossoms on tree

Southwestern Illinois (Waterloo) Update: Spring is Abound

green asparagus spear growing from ground

St. Louis Metro East Update: New Apogee recommendation available

pink stage of apple flower development

Plum Curculio Updates: Insights from the orchard

small worm feeding on inside of peach fruit

Get a jump on your tree fruit pruning before spring arrives

an overgrown established apple tree in need of pruning

Central Illinois Update: Food production techniques at the Unity Community Center garden

a greenhouse with a black net covering

Cultivating sunshine: Growing citrus indoors

Cultivating sunshine: Growing citrus indoors. A citrus tree with yellow fruit.

Diversify your orchard: Grow persimmons for a holiday season harvest

close-up of a persimmon

Everything Local conference strengthens Illinois food supply chain

vegetables at a farmers market

Let your voice be heard! Public comment period on proposed rate changes to chlorothalonil

Cab tractor spraying in peach orchard

St. Louis Metro East Update: Time for 'EverCrisp' apples

evercrisp apples

Southwestern Illinois Update: Pumpkins survive despite weather

Pumpkin displaying virus symptoms. Photo credit: N. Johanning Illinois Extension 2023.

St. Louis Metro East Update: Cool nights benefit red apples

Jonagold De Coster apple

Add pears to your home orchard for their complex flavor and history

pears on a paper tray

Tips to get started growing apples in your backyard

young girl picking an apple from an apple tree

St. Louis Metro East Update: Blossom end rot attacking peppers, tomatoes

blossom end rot on pepper plant

St. Louis Metro East Update: Late freeze creates apple frost rings

Frost Ring on 'Gala' Apple

It's your chance to speak at 2024 Food To Flowers conference

vegetables and flowers

Celebrate pie all summer long: Plant a pie garden

two small pies with full pastry tops and a large pie with a lattice work top cooling on a wire rack

Growing apples in your home orchard

Apple hanging from an apple tree

Managing fire blight in apples and pears at home

Managing fire blight at home. Apple tree shoot infected with fire blight. Shot is brown and the tip has curled down forming a shepherds crook.

Ward off the winter blues with plant propagation

Dark blue-purple elderberries hanging on pink stems

Love tree fruit, love the planet: Enjoy a fruiting plant for many years

A cluster of green pawpaws in a tree

Use terminal bud scars to gage growth rate of trees

Interesting and Brief: A History of Apples & Their Uses

Manage brown rot of peaches and other stone fruit in the garden

Managing brown rot of peaches and other stone fruit in the garden. Peach fruit infected with brown rot. Fruit is covered in brown fuzzy mass.

Visit a forest of food at The Refuge Food Forest

Black and red blackberries ripen on stems in the grass

Planning spray schedules for fruit trees

Make your tree fruit and small fruit pruning plans now; reach out to Extension for resources

Nick Frillman teaching pruning workshop at Refuge Food Forest

Choose apple trees for size and pollination

Do a little 2022 garden planning

Hazelnuts: A native plant is a new crop for Illinois

developing hazelnuts

Winterizing your home orchard

How to get fruit plants ready for winter: Start preparing for a successful harvest

How to get fruit plants ready for winter: Start preparing for a successful harvest. Unharvested apples and apple mummies in an apple tree.

A tough nut to crack: Unlock the healthy benefits of black walnuts

Nutritious, delicious black walnuts

Pawpaws are a native fall fruit that taste delightful

Make way for apple season

Red apples on the left side, green apples on the right side, with text that says "it's apple season!"

Celebrate National Peach Month

Peaches on tree

The wonderful wild pawpaw: America's largest, least-known tree fruit

Honeyberries are an early-season treat for berry lovers

Hidden beneath the leaves, honeyberries produce small blue-purple fruits on a shrub.

Protect apple foliage and fruit with a spray schedule

close up of red apples on a tree

Don’t lose your crabapple and apple foliage

apple blossoms

Time to do all kinds of pruning

Where is all our fruit? Four big factors of fruit tree production

Red apple hanging from tree

Black currant: growing favor for a blast of flavor.

black currants

Manage pests and disease in home orchards

Benefits of training your apple and fruit trees

How plants survive freezing temperatures

Fruit tree pollination is complicated

Fruit trees have a place, even in a small yard

How to prune fruit trees for healthier trees and better harvests

Person holding pruners getting ready to prune branch off a fruit tree

Ordering seeds from garden catalogs

How to winterize your young and fruit trees

Black Walnut

a black walnut tree

Pawpaw

Weather influences foliar disease

Bacterial Leaf Scorch Infecting Illinois Oaks

This pin oak tree tested positive for bacterial leaf scorch and displays the most distinctive symptoms characterized by brown leaf margins, a colorful band and green tissue along leaf veins.

Controlling Spotted-Wing Drosophila

How to prune fruit trees and maximize your home orchard

Clipper cutting tree branch in winter

How to Plant a Fruit Tree

Planting a fruit tree requires digging a hole the size of the roots.

More Early Spring FAQs: Lawns, Trees and Seeds

Chilling Hours Help Break Spring Dormancy

Peach Leaf Curl

Peach leaf infected with peach leaf curl

The history of blueberries: From Native American staple to domesticated superfood

The blueberry, commonly known as one of our “superfoods”, was not grown in cultivation until 1912 due a previous lack of understanding about their very specific soil requirements.

Answers for Early Spring FAQs

Enjoy spring blooms twice this year

lilac blooms in a vase

Creating an Edible Landscape

Scarlet runner beans growing on a fence

Training your Apple Tree

apples in tree

What’s Not-So-New in the Home Orchard

harvested apples filling a crate with trees blurred in background

Not All Trees Are Good Trees

Bronze leaves of Tree of Heaven

Preparing Black Walnuts for Eating

Go tropical with ornamental bananas

Banana plant

News Releases (159)

Learn how to grow your own apples

Learn how to grow your own apples

Learn how to grow your own apples

Apple orchards opening in Northern Illinois

Apple orchards opening in Northern Illinois

Apple orchards opening in Northern Illinois

Embrace Self-Sufficiency: Kickstart Your Modern Homesteading Adventure

Embrace Self-Sufficiency: Kickstart Your Modern Homesteading Adventure

Extension to offer February programs on fruit trees and small fruits

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Get the dirt on growing healthy plants

Fruit trees need an annual trim to bear best fruit

Build confidence in fruit tree pruning with free educational workshop

Time to prune the fruit trees: Let University of Illinois Extension help you this winter with upcoming programs

Time to prune the fruit trees: Let University of Illinois Extension help you this winter with upcoming programs

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

Southern Illinois growers rely on Extension's sound production advice

2021 Fruit & Vegetable VIRTUAL Conference

2021 Fruit & Vegetable VIRTUAL Conference

2021 Fruit & Vegetable VIRTUAL Conference

2021 Fruit & Vegetable VIRTUAL Conference

2021 Fruit & Vegetable VIRTUAL Conference

2021 Fruit & Vegetable VIRTUAL Conference

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Four Seasons Gardening webinars return in 2021

Fruits on Friday

Fruits on Friday

Fruits on Friday

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Preventing fruit tree diseases starts in the dormant season

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Use winter to plan for a fruit garden

Time to prune the fruit trees: Let University of Illinois Extension help you this winter with upcoming webinars

Time to prune the fruit trees: Let University of Illinois Extension help you this winter with upcoming webinars

Time to prune the fruit trees: Let University of Illinois Extension help you this winter with upcoming webinars

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Grow apple trees in your urban garden

Get Growing webinar series announced for growing vegetables and fruit

Get Growing webinar series announced for growing vegetables and fruit

Get Growing webinar series announced for growing vegetables and fruit

Get Growing webinar series announced for growing vegetables and fruit

Get Growing webinar series announced for growing vegetables and fruit

Get Growing webinar series announced for growing vegetables and fruit

All About Berries Series in Christian County

All About Berries Series in Christian County

Successful Backyard Orchard program

Conferences Set for Fruit and Vegetable Growers Feb. 4 & 5

Pruning Apples and More Workshop - Macoupin County

Pruning Apples and More Workshop - Montgomery County

Mileur Orchard to Host Upcoming Twilight Meeting

Residents Learn about Production and Marketing of Fruit

Staff (3)

Nick Frillman

Nick Frillman

Local Food Systems and Small Farms Educator

Andrew Holsinger

Andrew Holsinger

Horticulture Educator

Ken Johnson staff photo

Ken Johnson

Horticulture Educator

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