It is bare-root season for fruit trees as well as time to prune and a ... some that bear on both tips and spurs. Obviously if the apple has flowers and fruit on the branch tip you would not ...

and training the trees for horizontal branch growth to allow easier harvest. Because they are more widely planted, much research and experimentation has been done with apple trees, and then ...

When selecting apple lateral branches, try to space them 4 to 8 inches ... are young and pliable to reduce the chance of limbs splitting out. When training young trees, there are two basic types of ...

Espalier is the art of training and pruning a tree to grow flat ... it installed several espaliered Malus ‘Hat Trick’ apple trees (through grafting, they produce three modern varieties ...

Apple flower buds are borne on spurs, which are unelongated or compressed reproductive branches of tips of a shoot. Training trees to produce spurs is critical in apple fruit yield. Apple buds ...

Brakken makes room for all those apples by cultivating the trees in narrow terraces and training apple cordons in Belgian fences, a style of training and pruning that results in a horizontal lattice.

Q: I have a few mature (20- to 40-year-old) apple trees that line my driveway ... in Managing Diseases and Insects in Home Orchards and Training and Pruning Your Home Orchard.

The longer you wait to prune apple trees, the harder it is to eventually get them back producing fruit. It will take several years, taking a third off a year, to restore it. The more it is ...

With trees ranging from dwarf to standard (right), size selection bcomes crucial. Dwarves are easier to maintain and more productive. An apple orchard may be the quintessential symbol of the good ...