Prune apple trees in late winter or early spring to prevent disease and help healing. Limit pruning to 25 percent of the tree to avoid too many new branches and less fruit. Remove broken, crossing, or ...

Pruning an apple tree can seem like a daunting task if you have never done it before. Like most other skills, you start out slowly learning the basics to help build confidence. Then once the basic ...

Usually in winter, in places where snow falls and the ground freezes, there aren't too many chores to be done in the garden. Because I work as a professional gardener in the Northeast, my seasonal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty / undefined undefined Cultivating fruit trees in your garden is incredibly fulfilling. They offer tasty, fresh fruit ...

There are a number of, dare I say, thorny problems that many of us wrestle with in our gardens, myself included. Ahead of ...

How to prune? Cut stems back to around 30–60cm from the base, removing any weak or overcrowded branches. A tip: older stems ...