For those with a flair for artistry, espaliers can be grown as living fences that provide organic demarcation of different ...

Growing fruit on trees is a rewarding experience, but it comes with challenges. From pests and disease to climate stress or ...

Many positive results are being achieved using what’s known as the “Solaxe system” to increase productivity from fruit trees. On a recent tour of the Catoctin Mountain Orchard north of Frederick, ...

Fruit trees are usually pruned in late winter, right around now, to adjust the tree’s structure. Summer pruning can also be done, but this is typically used to control or slow down growth. Removing ...

It is bare-root season for fruit trees as well as time to prune and a reminder: before Valentine’s Day spray peaches and nectarines for peach leaf curl. The most important pruning is the pruning of ...

Answer: Pruning is one way to train a fruit tree, but it can also be used annually to increase fruit production. Pruning involves the removal of a portion of a tree, usually a limb, to cut out damage, ...

All are invited to learn how fruit tree training and pruning done during the winter dormant season helps create a desired tree structure, directs new growth and encourages good spring fruit set at a ...

One of the oldest advanced techniques of gardening — and one of my favorites — is espaliering, which involves shaping woody plants into two-dimensional shapes. Now, in bare root season, it’s timely to ...

Use cean, sharp, "bypass" type pruners as opposed to dull, dirty, "anvil" type pruners, which cause damage and which may transmit diseases or allow entry of pathogens. (WSU Extension Clark County) ...

Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service is offering a fruit tree program to residents of Vigo, Parke, Vermillion, Clay, Owen, Greene, Putnam, Sullivan and Monroe counties at 9 a.m. to noon ...