Pruning is an essential garden chore for healthy trees, and you may assume that fruit and shade trees have the same pruning ...

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 you’re wondering when to prune fruit trees, the answer is that it depends what fruit tree you have and what your goals are. Do you have a young tree that needs nurturing into bearing fruit? Perhaps ...

Winter is the optimal time to prune most deciduous fruit trees (except apricot and cherry). Photo courtesy Getty Images. Do you have a gardening question? The Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County ...

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Learn how and when to plant fruit trees in your home garden—and how to maintain them for the optimal yield After the decisions of where and what kind of tree to plant, deciding when to plant is much ...

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Fruit tree pruning: Fred Frey and Kamala Dionne from Vintage tree care will lead a hands-on fruit tree pruning class from 9 to 11 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m. Jan. 17 at Harmony Farm Supply, 3244 ...

We are lucky this March: no deep snow to keep us from approaching our fruit trees with ladder and clippers in hand. Some years, we still have thigh-deep snow in March, which is the traditional time to ...