Pruning apple trees encourages growth and reduces the risk of disease. Prune apple trees in late winter or early spring to prevent disease and help healing. Limit pruning to 25 percent of the tree to ...

If you look forward to harvesting fruit from your own apple trees to make jams, pies, and jars of apple butter, the first step is ensuring you have healthy trees. Set your apple trees up for a ...

As you start to think of Spring time weather, you may begin looking around the yard making a to-do list to accomplish. One of those looming tasks may be finally “attacking” that old apple tree. Late ...

If you’ve ever wrestled with an overgrown fruit tree, you know the struggle: branches reaching for the sky, fruit hiding in a tangled mess and those pesky suckers popping up everywhere. But don’t ...

Although most trees benefit from winter pruning, some benefit from early spring trims in March. Here's what you need to know ...

We recently moved into a home with two apple trees. I was told that they need to be pruned every year. Could you please give me some pointers on apple tree pruning? Apple and other fruit trees can be ...

A thriving apple tree is a wonderful addition to any garden. Not only are apple trees beautiful to look at and provide delicious fruit, but they're relatively low-maintenance once established. One ...

A thinning cut removes the branch at its junction with the trunk or limb. This type of cut is demonstrated on a tree in early spring at the University of Maine Agriculture and Forest Experiment ...

Apple trees (or any other fruit trees, for that matter), if they’re going to produce quality fruit, require regular maintenance. Pruning is fundamental. We prune to improve structure, flowering and ...