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Which Fruit Trees Are Best for Beginners
Which Fruit Trees Are Best for Beginners? If you're just starting out with gardening, you might be wondering: Which fruit ...
Use the proper safety equipment. Eye protection is essential. Gloves can reduce scrapes and cuts from hand tools and thorns. Long sleeves and gloves can also help protect against poison ivy. Proper ...
Just like seeing a fruit tree not bear fruit, it can be just as disheartening seeing more fruit on the ground under your tree than on the tree itself. But why exactly are your fru ...
There is much more to proper apple tree pruning, but these six cuts will get you started building your confidence for more sophisticated pruning techniques and will improve the health of your tree.
Jewel said pruning is very important for tree health. For most species, she said you can prune any time, but dormant pruning of some species is important. Dormant pruning is imperative for some ...
Below is Polozola’s advice on pruning and training the shape of some common fruit trees as well as pecans, which we usually think of as nuts but actually are drupes, a type of fruit. Peach ...
For recently planted younger apple trees not yet bearing fruit, developing strong frameworks is critical. Choose horizontally oriented branches with wide angles from the trunk to become the main ...
Join The Arboretum for two upcoming workshops. The first is about restoring fruit trees and the second is about pruning trees. Matt Soltys will teach the Restoring Fruit Trees workshop on March 12 ...
If you’ve already got a tree or two planted, winter dormancy is the time for some pruning and spraying, two chores that intimidate the uninitiated. February is a good time to accomplish these tasks.
Dormant pruning minimizes stress on the tree and makes it easier to see the tree’s structure without foliage. Routine winter pruning should remove about 10-20% of the canopy.