Sure, unpruned fruit trees can still produce a crop. But knowing how to prune fruit trees properly helps them be more productive and the fruit will be easier to harvest. This guide explains the ...

A healthy fruit tree is a magical thing. Besides providing a wealth of delicious food, a thriving tree creates shade and beauty and increases biodiversity in your yard. To keep fruit trees healthy and ...

The apple tree is screaming to be pruned! A large, old apple tree can take hours to prune. An option is to cut it down and plant several dwarf fruit trees. (Judy Scott) Anyone who buys or inherits a ...

A famous horticulturist once said, “Of all the operations connected with horticulture, pruning, shaping and training bring the person into closest contact and sympathy with his plant.” Pruning, when ...

Keeping your fruit trees small has many advantages, especially when it comes to harvesting, says Contra Costa Master Gardener Helen Erickson. To keep them at a reasonable height, Erickson told the Our ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is bare-root season for fruit trees as well as time to prune and a reminder: before Valentine’s Day spray peaches and nectarines for peach leaf curl. The most important pruning is the pruning of ...

Espalier design is an ancient pruning practice that fashions fruit trees, vines or flowering shrubs into artistic, two-dimensional forms. This lateral shaping makes it easier to harvest and mow, ...

This photo of an espalier tree, taken at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa., shows a typical ''Cordon" design with its vertical trunk and multi-tiered horizontal branches. The lateral shaping ...