A great satisfaction comes from picking fresh fruit from your own apple, peach or cherry tree. However, successfully growing fruit trees in the Kansas City area can be a challenge. Proper pruning is ...

There's no one month in which all fruit trees should be pruned since each variety has different needs, and there are different reasons for pruning, whether that's trimming off leafy growth to ...

Prune apple trees in late winter or early spring to prevent disease and help healing. Limit pruning to 25 percent of the tree ...

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, ...

Fruit trees can be a beautiful and fun addition to any landscape, and they should be pruned to obtain good yields of high-quality fruit. There are three important aspects to pruning fruit trees: ...

Local fruit tree expert Monica Maggio will teach an informative, hands-on pruning class Saturday. Special to The Columbian For many, fruit tree pruning conjures images of pouring rain and warm hats, ...

This is the best time of the year to prune certain types of fruit trees. The trees are dormant now and the pruning wounds will begin to heal as soon as growth begins in the spring. By now many people ...

Common advice may be to prune all of your plants back ahead of winter, but this can actually leave fruit trees vulnerable to ...