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 ...

Have you heard of Egyptian apple pie? It’s the type mummy used to make. Apples are the most common homegrown fruit in Northern regions. Most apple tree owners know they’re supposed to prune their ...

Get rid of dead or damaged branches and keep the tree's size in check. If you look forward to harvesting fruit from your own apple trees to make jams, pies, and jars of apple butter, the first step is ...

Question: In my backyard I have apple, peach and apricot trees. Should I prune these three species the same way or take a different approach for each? Answer: Pruning is an important and necessary ...

Late winter is an ideal time for pruning many trees, and fruit trees are no exception. Regularly trimming away damaged and unsightly branches is key to maintaining a healthy tree with an aesthetically ...

Pruning times vary depending on the type of rose you’re growing. December is ideal for tackling climbing roses: remove any old wood, then tidy and shape the plant. Make each cut about 5mm above a bud, ...

As in Robert Frost’s poem “After Apple-Picking,” my “long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree/Toward heaven still.” And my “instep arch not only keeps the ache,/It keeps the pressure of the ...