Most trees with long, flexible branches, such as apple, cherry, fig, peach, pear, plum and quince lend themselves nicely to ...

Let's look closely at how to grow an apricot tree, starting with finding the best spot to plant an apricot tree and then how to care for them to have healthy fruit trees and great harvests.

It is bare-root season for fruit trees as well as time to prune and a reminder: before Valentine’s Day spray peaches and nectarines for peach leaf curl. The most important pruning is the pruning ...

Fruit trees are pruned and trained to obtain the greatest possible yield and fruit quality. A strong framework increases the life of the tree and reduces loss from wood breakage. Also, improved ...

All are invited to learn how fruit tree training and pruning done during the winter dormant season helps create a desired tree structure, directs new growth and encourages good spring fruit set at a ...

Fall has arrived and many gardeners soon will be thinking about planting shrubs and trees. Fall is a great time to consider planting a young fruit tree.

Training of a fruit tree is accomplished through properly timed pruning cuts over the course of the season. There are two main training systems for fruit trees: the open leader and the central leader.

Pruning is not training. Training fruit trees to a strong framework is done by establishing scaffold branches, the primary limbs radiating from the trunk of a tree. Today we're discussing two very ...

Hannah shows how to train young fruit trees headed in the wrong direction, into the right shape for good tree access and health. Hannah has a few olive trees, all between one and two years old ...

Answer: Pruning is one way to train a fruit tree, but it can also be used annually to increase fruit production. Pruning involves the removal of a portion of a tree, usually a limb, to cut out ...