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 ...

While it may seem like you should leave your leafless trees alone in winter, the fact is, it's a great time to prune many ...

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 ...

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

Sanitary pruning is okay to do during the fall months; Vasylchyshyna recommends only removing dry, damaged, or dead branches.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

If you didn’t already prune your apricots at the end of last summer, please hold off a little longer. Our area has a fungus called Eutypa that infects fresh pruning wounds when rainfall occurs 2 to 6 ...

Being all fired up during my first training class in Master Gardening five years ago, I went out and planted a small home fruit tree orchard. Now I've got peaches, plums, nectarines, apples, pears, ...

Brian Cox with The Davey Tree Expert Company prunes a peach tree at a client's home in Frisco. (Jason Janik/Special Contributor) The edible garden is serene and quiet in winter. Fallen leaves have ...