A healthy fruit tree is a magical thing. Besides providing a wealth of delicious food, a thriving tree creates shade and beauty and increases biodiversity in your yard. To keep fruit trees healthy and ...

Sure, unpruned fruit trees can still produce a crop. But knowing how to prune fruit trees properly helps them be more productive and the fruit will be easier to harvest. This guide explains the ...

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 ...

Orcharding requires effort, but the resulting yields of fresh fruit make it all worthwhile. One of the most important aspects of growing fruit trees is pruning. This applies to large commercial and ...

We’re fortunate to live in California’s Central Valley — one of the most fertile agricultural regions in the country — and thus we have the ability to grow a huge variety of fruit- and nut-bearing ...

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