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 ...

Cultivating fruit trees in your garden is incredibly fulfilling. They offer tasty, fresh fruit throughout the growing season and produce fragrant flowers that attract beneficial pollinators. Moreover, ...

Growing our own backyard produce is one of America’s most popular pastimes, one of the most rewarding and sometimes among the most frustrating. Good fruit production relies heavily on pollinators ...

Fruit trees provide us with a bounty of fresh food and need only a little care. Four things are needed to keep your fruit trees healthy and productive: proper irrigation, fertilization, pest control ...

Dormant season pruning is a traditional tree and garden chore, and it certainly has a rightful place in the annual cycle of garden activities. Here in Napa Valley, it’s a relatively brief time when ...

Over the years we have been conditioned to believe pruning while there are leaves on trees is a capital offense. Consequently, it has probably never crossed the minds of most home orchardists to break ...

Prune in winter to get the most out of the investment of time and money you put into this fall-fruiting tree — that is, lots ...