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, ...

IDAHO FALLS — One of the most common questions we receive in Extension is: When is the best time to prune my fruit trees? The general rule of thumb is to prune in late winter or early spring, while ...

If you’ve ever wrestled with an overgrown fruit tree, you know the struggle: branches reaching for the sky, fruit hiding in a tangled mess and those pesky suckers popping up everywhere. But don’t ...

Find out how to prune fruit trees properly, plus tips for timing your pruning right. Sure, unpruned fruit trees can still produce a crop. But knowing how to prune fruit trees properly helps them be ...

Winter is the prime season for planting and pruning fruit trees, and a little thoughtful work now pays off in healthier trees and better fruit later. When pruning mature trees, the goals are simple: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a person pruning a fruit tree - Maksim Safaniuk/Shutterstock Getting the timing wrong is one of the most common mistakes everyone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ripe plums on tree branches - Augustas Cetkauskas/Getty Images Compared to other fruit trees, growing a plum tree in your yard ...

Cooperative Extension is hosting a Free Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop with N.C. State Fruit Tree Specialist, Dr. Mike Parker, from 9-11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The workshop will take place at Ramsey ...

When pruning perennials in the spring, leave a few woody stems 8-10" tall for native bees to use this season for nesting. When pruning perennials in the spring, leave a few woody stems 8-10" tall for ...

A thinning cut removes the branch at its junction with the trunk or limb. This type of cut is demonstrated on a tree in early spring at the University of Maine Agriculture and Forest Experiment ...