It’s just about that time to prune your fruit trees, while they’re still dormant. Fruit trees are treated a bit differently than shade trees when it comes to pruning. While we never want to ...

Pruning is an essential part of fruit tree maintenance, but doing it wrong can spell trouble for your trees. Here are the key ...

Anyone who has a cherry tree in their garden - or apricots, peaches or plums - is being warned they must take action this ...

Productive fruit trees with an abundance of high-quality fruit don't just happen. They result from good cultural practices, including pruning. However, fruit tree pruning is often neglected by the ...

If any older branches need pruning, only do so if you won’t knock off any developing fruit. You may need to delay this till after harvest, but time isn’t critical as with Prunus species.

How to get a plum tree to fruit. Plum trees typically take three to five years to fruit, so a little patience will be required if you have recently planted a young tree in your yard.

It was a simple message Friday: a little pruning can bring healing and better growth. The hands-on training was practiced Friday on wild plum trees at Lincoln University's Alan T. Busby Farm.

Fruit trees can grow well in a variety of soil types as long as the soil is well-drained. If you are growing standard-size fruit trees, you should have soil that is 4 to 9 feet deep.

The fruit goes to the school and is available to students. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News) Trimming an Italian plum, gleaners Scott Swantner, left, Seth Rolland and Tim Lawson devote their ...