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The Best Time To Prune Your Plum Tree (& The Best Way To Do It)

Compared to other fruit trees, growing a plum tree in your yard brings big rewards with relatively little effort. But if there's one task that you cannot skip if you want a plum harvest worth bragging ...
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Avoid Making These Common Mistakes When Pruning Your Fruit Trees

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 ...
Winston-Salem Journal

Differences between pruning and training fruit trees

Answer: Pruning is one way to train a fruit tree, but it can also be used annually to increase fruit production. Pruning involves the removal of a portion of a tree, usually a limb, to cut out damage, ...
Reno Gazette-Journal

Prune fruit trees to create beautiful, edible landscapes

Fruit trees are a source of beauty, enjoyment and nourishment in the home landscape. Their spring blooms and fall leaves brighten the yard. Their lush green canopies provide shady places to picnic and ...
Tallahassee Democrat

Secret to pruning fruit trees is to start early

One of the most often asked questions we get at the nursery is: when and how do I prune my fruit trees? Pruning fruit trees doesn't need to be confusing. It is not rocket science. If you follow a few ...
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Pruning and training backyard fruit trees will help fruit reach its full potential

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 ...
The Daily Astorian

OSU Extension Guide Makes Pruning Fruit Trees Easier

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The first of the year is an ideal time to learn more about pruning, for pruning time is right around the corner. The Oregon State University Extension Service has a guide, online or ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Fruit tree pruning lessons begin Saturday

As soon as the leaves drop from your fruit trees, you can begin to prune them. On Saturdays, Dec. 12 and 19, I will be conducting peach and nectarine pruning classes at the University of Nevada ...
Daily Express

Key task to perform now to get heavy crop from your plum tree

Plum trees are a proper English fruit with Britain's best known ‘Victoria’ plum being the nation's favourite. These fruit trees naturally love the UK’s climate so are easy to grow, promising a heavy ...
Orlando Sentinel

Prune peach and plum trees in January or early February

Question: It’s October and the peach and plum trees have started to bloom. Should we do needed pruning now or wait until the normal time during winter? Answer: October flowering could mean an early ...
Chicago Tribune

Damson plum trees maturing, but where’s the fruit?

Can you help me with two damson plum trees? I purchased these trees bare-root and planted them probably five years ago. They have flourished and now stand 8 to 10 feet tall. I have had them ...