The best time to prune most of our deciduous trees and shrubs is late winter. One reason is that insect pests and plant ...

Jillian Patrie | University of Minnesota Yard and Garden Extension ...

Timing is key when it comes to pruning flowering and fruiting plants. Randy Forst, extension educator for consumer horticulture for University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said late Feb ...

The only thing you can do catastrophically wrong is to remove all the 2-year-old wood on apples, pears, and European plums.

Finish pruning the landscape. After pruning, spray fruit trees and those plants prone to disease and bug problems with Watters “Horticultural Oil.” Really focus on disease-prone plants like ...

Winter tree pruning is an important step in garden maintenance that can significantly affect the health of trees, their development, and yield in the next season. However, not all gardeners know how ...

Every winter I prune my fruit trees and as I do I think, 'uuhhh I don’t really know what I’m doing.' So this year I decided to reach out and get some help. I sat down with Russell Norton a ...

Note: Do not prune more than 20% of your tree in a single year. This could put it into shock. If you over prune, your tree will dedicate its energy to growing new leaves instead of fruit.