Unfortunately, your apple and peach trees can attract all sorts of pests that can cause major damage, but you can shake ...

A good starting apple to grow here is the Gravenstein. This heirloom variety was once the most popular fruit grown in ...

It's easier to stop squirrels from feeding on your trees to begin with than to deter them once they've found your fruit trees ...

These pruning rules are universal rules and are meant to keep your apple and pear trees calm and ... which forms the basis of the bearing capacity of your trees. RULE 10: Get rid of old, tired spurs.

We moved house a few years ago, with a cherry tree in the east-facing front garden, and two eating apple trees in the ... s what’s known as a tip-bearing or spur-bearing variety.

where trees bear heavily one year, followed by no apples the next, referred to as biennial bearing. When is the best time of year to prune apple trees? The traditionally recommended time is from ...

Apple trees are grown from shoots grafted onto ... strong shape. Further pruning will depend on whether your tree is tip-bearing or spur-bearing and the form of your tree, such as cordon or espalier.

To assure good clean cuts, choose the proper tool for size of cut from hand pruning shears, loppers and a small hand saw. Do not treat cuts with wound dressing. For recently planted younger apple ...

prune and spray. Whether you have one or several, or plan to plant your first fruit tree, it’s time to give them the attention needed to keep them healthy and bearing fruit. Nurseries have them ...

Apples are produced on spurs (or buds) that are found on wood that is two years and older. When pruning apple trees ... most fruit trees to properly manage the amount of fruit-bearing wood each ...

The hum of summer insects among the fruit trees has disappeared, the leaves have all fallen, and their dormant branches stand bare against a cold blue sky. Now is the time for careful pruning with ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The best time to prune fruit trees in Missouri is midwinter, according to University of Missouri Extension horticulture specialist Debi Kelly. “There are many reasons to prune fruit ...