Get rid of dead or damaged branches and keep the tree's size in check. 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 ...

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 of ...

Pruning an apple tree can seem like a daunting task if you have never done it before. Like most other skills, you start out slowly learning the basics to help build confidence. Then once the basic ...

Question: In my backyard I have apple, peach and apricot trees. Should I prune these three species the same way or take a different approach for each? Answer: Pruning is an important and necessary ...

February is the perfect time to tackle pruning.

Last spring (2023) was tough on apples in some places. Up on top of the ridges, well above 2,000 feet in elevation, things were fine. Up there trees were covered with fruit. But drop down in the ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

A guide to when and how to prune fan-trained fruit trees for healthy trees and bumper crops, including tips for training trees and pruning established trees.

PLANTING A FRUIT TREE is an investment in time and garden resources. Greg Giuliani is a longtime home orchardist and a member of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society, a chapter of the Western Cascade Fruit ...