With some plants, pruning is optional. This is not true of many fruit trees. Not only must you prune them for fruit production, but you also must prune them in just the right way. People often ...

Pruning in the dormant season is absolutely necessary for trees that form fruit on new wood. Nectarines and peaches are two trees that benefit from dormant pruning. Others, like apricot, cherry, and ...

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 ...

Find out how to prune fruit trees properly, plus tips for timing your pruning right. ... For example, sweet cherries can be pruned in late summer when there’s less chance of bacterial infection.

Fruit trees, rhodies and many other plants, thrive with a July pruning. As the heat and drought of July crescendos, you may notice that spring’s tender new growth has turned into summer’s ...

All fruit trees benefit from both summer and winter pruning. Peaches, nectarines, plums and apricots are all members of the Prunus genus and are therefore closely related.

Quite a few gardeners, including me, summer prune standards as well as trained trees, shortening fresh shoots and so letting in more light and air to the ripening fruit and forming buds.

The first pruning follows the “June drop” as the trees shed excess fruit. The second is in July, to maintain a compact, uncongested tree with lightly shortened new growth.

The gardening expert has shared the plants that should be pruned in June, including lilacs, azaleas, roses, wisteria and fruit trees, to name but a few ...

GARDENING Three fruit trees that you must prune in March if you want to get the big harvest of the year in the summer. With Spring around the corner, plants, trees and shrubs will soon be bursting ...