Pruning your fruit tree is an essential task, but when's the best time to do it? Some varieties, like apple and pear trees, ...

Pear trees can give you a fantastic and reliable crop of homegrown fruits year-after-year. There are lots of delicious varieties to choose from and pears can be grown as free-standing trees, trained ...

As Callery pear trees, otherwise known as Bradford pears, begin to bloom in abundance, Kentucky meteorologist Brad Maushart has taken it upon himself to offer a little pruning advice to the Southeast.

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 ...

Growing a pear tree gives you sweet fruit and year-round beauty with very little maintenance required. For success, choose the right variety for your climate, plant in full sun, and water deeply each ...

Varieties of hazelnuts, which are also known as cobnuts and filberts, should be regularly pruned in dormancy to promote wood to carry the crop of nuts. Some of the most common varieties include the ...

Sure, unpruned fruit trees can still produce a crop. But knowing how to prune fruit trees properly helps them be more productive and the fruit will be easier to harvest. This guide explains the ...

Q:My pear tree did just fine this year but I am wondering when to prune it? A:Prune late fall or early spring. Prune very lightly. Remove weak, crossing or dead branches. Q:I have hail damage to ...

If you’ve planted fruit trees such as apple, peach or persimmon in hopes of enjoying the crop, you’ll need to prune them. “Fruit tree pruning can have different goals than pruning typical landscape ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! It is hard to believe this is the last week of April. Hopefully, most of the cold weather is behind us as we experienced two very chilling nights this week ...

Blooming trees and flowers are a classic sign of spring, but one flowering tree actually causes an ugly invasive problem.Bradford Pear trees are easy to spot in Ohio, with many lining the local ...

Don Kinzler answers questions about the best time to prune a rose bush and cross-pollination. He also gives a reader a recommendation for an evergreen tree that won't grow taller than 25 feet ...