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, ...

With some plants, pruning is optional. This is not true of many fruit trees. Not only must you prune them for fruit production, but you also must prune them in just the right way. People often fear ...

When is a good time to prune my fruit trees? Fall is absolutely the worst time for pruning fruit trees. The best time to prune fruit trees is when the trees are dormant, although under certain ...

Pruning certain plants when dormant during the colder months can help reduce stress and create "vigorous and healthy growth" ...

YUBA CITY, Calif. -- Pity the poor prune. Celebrated for years as one of California's most important crops, the prune this year will find itself on the sidelines, wrinkled, dried out and ignored.