A good pruner helps you keep your trees healthy, maintains their attractive shape, deals with accidental damage, and, in the case of fruit trees, can increase their yield. It’s also much safer than ...
Many people feel that fruit tree pruning is too complex a task to be done by amateurs, but when we amateurs learn a few basic concepts, we can keep our fruit trees healthy, well-shaped and bearing ...
Within a few years of lovingly planting fruit trees, most folks find themselves with scraggly overgrown bushes, rather than the Garden of Eden they had envisioned. The key to keeping fruit trees ...
MSN: Before You Pick Up Your Pruners, Make Sure You Don’t Cut Back This One Type of Tree This Fall
Prune fruit trees in late winter or during early spring dormancy for faster healing and stronger growth. Prune lightly in summer to shape trees, but avoid fall or early winter cuts that risk cold ...
Before You Pick Up Your Pruners, Make Sure You Don’t Cut Back This One Type of Tree This Fall
If you’ve ever wrestled with an overgrown fruit tree, you know the struggle: branches reaching for the sky, fruit hiding in a tangled mess and those pesky suckers popping up everywhere. But don’t ...
Yakima Herald-Republic: Bountiful fruit harvest starts in chill of winter as pruners shape orchard success
Bountiful fruit harvest starts in chill of winter as pruners shape orchard success
Mother Earth News: How to Prune Fruit Trees to Keep Them Small
After fruit was thinned to 8 inches apart, this 5-year-old tree still produced 84 large apples. Many fruit trees — including semidwarf varieties — can easily grow to 15 feet and taller. Anyone who has ...