Q. Last year, my plum tree didn’t have any fruit at all. This spring, it has so many plums that I’m afraid the branches may break! Why? This phenomenon is called “alternate year bearing ...

How to prune backyard apple, peach and apricot trees. There are two types of pruning cuts for fruit trees -- heading and thinning -- and which you use depends on what type of tree you’re trimming.

When you prune, focus on dead, diseased, or damaged branches. These parts of the tree weaken its health. Removing dead or damaged areas redirects energy toward live and thriving parts of the tree, ...

Should I burn or dispose of these dead branches? A: Flat-headed borers can get in the sunburned limbs and young trunks of peach, apple, nectarine, apricot and other fruit trees (and many ...

We saw some dieback in trees coming out of winter. In some cases, it is environmental stress from drought stress and winter ...

Gardening columnist Don Kinzler offers advice on telling whether perennial flowers, deciduous shrubs, evergreens, trees, lawns and more are dead or simply growing slowly due to the late spring.

When I pruned this year, there were at least eight dead branches, is there a possibility of still saving the tree? There are several potential causes for gumming or oozing sap on stone fruit trees.

An extremely heavy fruit load will not only stress the tree’s resources but will also result in broken branches. Removing up to 90% of fruit also means that the remaining fruit will be larger ...