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 ...

Cultivating fruit trees in your garden is incredibly fulfilling. They offer tasty, fresh fruit throughout the growing season and produce fragrant flowers that attract beneficial pollinators. Moreover, ...

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 ...

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 ...

To encourage excellent fruit production year after year, it's important to prune your fruit trees. A neglected fruit tree can start to grow out of control and provide fruit of poor quality. The best ...

Pruning helps keep fruit trees aesthetically pleasing, even in winter. Pruning back branches allows more sunshine in to other leaves. When pruning, it's important to know which branches will produce ...

Q: I am having a very difficult time finding someone to prune my fruit trees the way you recommend. I am older and no longer able to direct a novice (which has failed), much less do it myself. The ...

If you have fruit trees in your landscape, you should plan to prune them in the next couple of weeks, as early- to mid-March is the best time to perform the task. March marks the end of the dormant ...

BRAINERD — In the past landowners planted trees primarily for cover, windbreaks, or to create visual barriers around a property. A relatively new trend finds private landowners planting fruit bearing ...

Question: Our peach trees are starting to bloom. Should they be pruned at this time? Answer: Now is peach tree-pruning time. Many have been in bloom for a while, but there are still plenty of flower ...

Question: Our peach trees are in bloom. Does that mean we should prune them at this time? Answer: Enjoy the fall blooms and delay normal pruning until January or early February. Early leaf drop and ...

Question: My fruit trees have not been pruned for three years and have gotten too tall. Could you give me some suggestions for bringing them back into control? Is now a good time to prune? Answer: It ...