Fruit trees are pruned in order to train trees for production of greatest yield and highest quality fruit. Among the fruit trees requiring pruning are peaches, apricots, apples, pears and quince. Of ...

Most fruit trees are pruned during their dormant phase in winter when the leaves are off the tree and its structure is visible. Not so with apricot and cherry trees. They are prone to Eutypa fungus ...

Fall has arrived and many gardeners soon will be thinking about planting shrubs and trees. Fall is a great time to consider planting a young fruit tree. Most fruit trees consist of a rootstock, which ...

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 ...

Many positive results are being achieved using what’s known as the “Solaxe system” to increase productivity from fruit trees. On a recent tour of the Catoctin Mountain Orchard north of Frederick, ...

Fruit trees are usually pruned in late winter, right around now, to adjust the tree’s structure. Summer pruning can also be done, but this is typically used to control or slow down growth. Removing ...

Espalier is an ancient horticultural practice of shape-shifting nature by training trees to grow flat against a wall or trellis. While you may have noticed these fan-shaped trees against a fence in a ...

One of the oldest advanced techniques of gardening — and one of my favorites — is espaliering, which involves shaping woody plants into two-dimensional shapes. Now, in bare root season, it’s timely to ...

All are invited to learn how fruit tree training and pruning done during the winter dormant season helps create a desired tree structure, directs new growth and encourages good spring fruit set at a ...

Fruit trees add a countrified note to any plot, connecting even the smallest of urban yards to the noble history of agricultural self-sufficiency. Yet given its size at maturity, the pear tree you ...

This is the time _ through the end of February _ to plant and prune many of our deciduous fruiting plants. If the trees are already blooming, as my peach trees are, you have waited too long and will ...

Use cean, sharp, "bypass" type pruners as opposed to dull, dirty, "anvil" type pruners, which cause damage and which may transmit diseases or allow entry of pathogens. (WSU Extension Clark County) ...