Trimming your fruit trees at the wrong time can reduce the tree's total fruit production, its tolerance for cold weather, and ...

Peach trees are generally considered easy to grow—but that doesn't mean you can skip pruning. Pruning is an essential step in ensuring that your tree produces as much quality fruit as possible and can ...

Fall is the ideal time to care for fruit trees after harvest. These 8 tasks help ensure strong roots, fewer pests, and better ...

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 ...

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 ...

I read that I should prune my fruit trees every year. Mine have not been pruned for several years. Could you please explain how and when to prune fruit trees? Fruit trees should be pruned every year.

Garden tip Sharpen or replace the blades on all pruning tools. Oil the moving parts. A pair of secateurs or hand pruners, a pair of loppers and a folding pruning saw will take care of most jobs.

If you’ve planted fruit trees such as apple, peach or persimmon in hopes of enjoying the crop, you’ll need to prune them. “Fruit tree pruning can have different goals than pruning typical landscape ...

We are lucky this March: no deep snow to keep us from approaching our fruit trees with ladder and clippers in hand. Some years, we still have thigh-deep snow in March, which is the traditional time to ...

Question: I read that I should prune my fruit trees every year. Mine have not been pruned for several years. Could you please explain how and when to prune fruit trees? Answer: Yes, fruit trees should ...