If you're growing fruit trees, then harvesting the (literal) fruits of your labor is the most exciting part. To speed that ...

Leaving selected vertical shoots helps keep apple and pear trees with fewer water sprouts. Whenever you make a pruning cut, you are communicating with the tree. If you keep in mind auxin flow from ...

If left to their own devices, most apple trees grow into large, globe-shaped trees, with the best fruit forming on the tree’s ...

Increasing daylength and warmer days tells us spring is not far off. While certainly too early for any outdoor planting or soil work, we have advanced ...

and he favors delaying apple tree pruning until the time when the flower buds start swelling and through the start of leaf emergence. As Walla indicates, the risk of black rot canker fungus ...