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 ...

The pruning of young shade trees to enable the development of strong, healthy tree structures is a frequently overlooked practice. Here are a few tips to help you improve the life and longevity of ...

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 ...

Answer: Pruning is one way to train a fruit tree, but it can also be used annually to increase fruit production. Pruning involves the removal of a portion of a tree, usually a limb, to cut out damage, ...

Imani Green Health Advocates program leader Ajiah Gilbert, left, records data from a honey locust tree with Maybelline Mariscal, 21, during a tree health monitoring training outing in McKinley Park.

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 ...

Sooner or later all gardeners realise that there is nothing new under the sun. Every trendy planting style, technique and design element is just a reinterpretation of what has gone before. The 26th ...

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