If you look forward to harvesting fruit from your own apple trees to make jams, pies, and jars of apple butter, the first step is ensuring you have healthy trees. Set your apple trees up for a ...

Prune apple trees in late winter or early spring to prevent disease and help healing. Limit pruning to 25 percent of the tree to avoid too many new branches and less fruit. Remove broken, crossing, or ...

Ever looked out at your garden in winter and wondered if you should bother with pruning? It can feel odd to fuss over plants ...

Pruning your fruit trees is an important step to making sure they stay healthy and produce good fruit, but pruning too early ...

I have been pruning a bit on all three trees for a number years and following the advice in an older Ortho Book for Growing Fruits & Berries in Western Canada where it states “if pruning in winter or ...