If you’re wondering when to prune fruit trees, the answer is that it depends what fruit tree you have and what your goals are. Do you have a young tree that needs nurturing into bearing fruit? Perhaps ...

Cultivating fruit trees in your garden is incredibly fulfilling. They offer tasty, fresh fruit throughout the growing season and produce fragrant flowers that attract beneficial pollinators. Moreover, ...

Pruning helps keep fruit trees aesthetically pleasing, even in winter. Pruning back branches allows more sunshine in to other leaves. When pruning, it's important to know which branches will produce ...

Q: I am having a very difficult time finding someone to prune my fruit trees the way you recommend. I am older and no longer able to direct a novice (which has failed), much less do it myself. The ...

If you squint your eyes real tight and look at a grove of deciduous trees you are likely to see just a slight casting of green. I did and there is. Looking at the calendar you realize daylight saving ...

Pruning apple trees encourages growth and reduces the risk of disease. Prune apple trees in late winter or early spring to ...

BRAINERD — In the past landowners planted trees primarily for cover, windbreaks, or to create visual barriers around a property. A relatively new trend finds private landowners planting fruit bearing ...

March, April and May are good months to prune fruit trees. Traditionally, farmers pruned their fruit trees in March. I think they did so because they had less other work they could do during this time ...

Common advice may be to prune all of your plants back ahead of winter, but this can actually leave fruit trees vulnerable to ...

Most deciduous trees are best pruned while they are in full dormancy. This happens to be February or March for this part of the country. While many of our landscape trees don’t necessarily need yearly ...

Question: My fruit trees have not been pruned for three years and have gotten too tall. Could you give me some suggestions for bringing them back into control? Is now a good time to prune? Answer: It ...