With Spring around the corner, plants, trees and shrubs will soon be bursting into bloom. Now’s the time to get your pruning ...

If you're growing fruit trees, then harvesting the (literal) fruits of your labor is the most exciting part. To speed that ...

Choose buds that are pointed outward ... As you're pruning, keep the apple tree's shape in mind. The tree should always have a pyramidal shape. You should cut branches near the tree trunk ...

If left to their own devices, most apple trees grow into large, globe-shaped trees, with the best fruit forming on the tree’s ...

Fungicide treatments must be repeated each year to protect susceptible trees.

It makes the tree easier to prune and the fruit easier ... The following winter, prune to the third wire leaving three healthy buds to produce your third tier of branches. Repeat to make four ...

If you’re thinking of planting for pollinators this spring, I will be teaching a one-hour class at the Columbus Public ...

and he favors delaying apple tree pruning until the time when the flower buds start swelling and through the start of leaf emergence. As Walla indicates, the risk of black rot canker fungus ...