Many people feel that fruit tree pruning is too complex a task to be done by amateurs, but when we amateurs learn a few basic concepts, we can keep our fruit trees healthy, well-shaped and bearing ...

There's no one month in which all fruit trees should be pruned since each variety has different needs, and there are different reasons for pruning, whether that's trimming off leafy growth to ...

CORVALLIS — The best time to prune fruit trees is in the winter and when you have enough time to finish the job, according to Ross Penhallegon, horticulturist and pruning expert with the Oregon State ...

Last week I tackled one of the most misunderstood home gardening chores: the pruning of stonefruits and other deciduous fruit trees. In that column I explained the purpose of winter pruning is to ...

Controlling tree height is another major goal of fruit tree pruning. Shorter trees make all maintenance easier, such as pruning, harvesting and pest control applications. Shorter trees with a smaller ...

It is still wintertime and there's yet another gardening task that needs to be done — pruning. Many plants should be pruned in winter — late January, February and into March here in the High Desert — ...