Find out how to prune fruit trees properly, plus tips for timing your pruning right.

It’s difficult to find someone to prune several kinds of fruit trees. In fruit-producing areas, such skilled workers are easier to find.

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Pruning can be used to train or direct growth, rejuvenate an overgrown shrub, and increase light to the middle of a fruit tree. It can be used to clean up broken branches.

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My fruit trees have not been pruned for two or three years. Could you give me some suggestions on how to prune them?

"Open-vase" pruning allows fruit to develop inside the tree and on growing branches, explains master gardener Brian Minter.