Pear trees can give you a fantastic and reliable crop of homegrown fruits year-after-year. There are lots of delicious varieties to choose from and pears can be grown as free-standing trees ...

Summer pruning helps keep fruit trees to a manageable size since dwarf trees are only relatively small. A standard cherry or pear tree may easily be 30 feet high, and a dwarf one can still reach ...

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Those green-fingered types at East Malling Research have prepared a summer pruning plan and courses to help you maintain your apple and pear trees.

Severe pruning — a.k.a. "coat racking" — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse.

With some plants, pruning is optional. This is not true of many fruit trees. Not only must you prune them for fruit production, but you also must prune them in just the right way. People often ...

July is the optimum time for summer pruning. Some plants like fruit trees, rhododendrons, azaleas and others, should be pruned now. JEFF COX. FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT. July 4, 2024.

Severe pruning — a.k.a. "coat racking" — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse. Pruning ficus around actors' strike in summer heat harms ...

A: Pruning a pear tree begins in late winter before the buds begin to swell. Earlier pruning may encourage excessive vegetative growth and suckering in spring and summer. It also increases the ...

The first pruning follows the “June drop” as the trees shed excess fruit. The second is in July, to maintain a compact, uncongested tree with lightly shortened new growth.