Pruning is an essential part of fruit tree maintenance, but doing it wrong can spell trouble for your trees. Here are the key pruning mistakes to avoid.

If you have not had the time to prune your fruit trees in winter, now is the opportune time. A little pruning now can reduce the work needed to care for your trees throughout the year. Why prune? The ...

A: I admit it can be confusing, but there is a significant difference between topping a tree and pruning to control size.

With Spring around the corner, plants, trees and shrubs will soon be bursting into bloom. Now’s the time to get your pruning shears out.

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 ...

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

To prune a tree, I have followed the Al Gore method, who as vice president helped reduce the federal workforce and ...

As the calendar turns to spring with its lengthening days of warm sunshine, flowers begin to appear on fruit trees across ...

Grapes are grown for many reasons: ornamental, shade arbors, fruit and wine. All of them share one thing in common: grape ...

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will be holding a hands-on workshop to teach proper pruning techniques for fruit ...