Pruning apple trees encourages growth and reduces the risk of disease. Prune apple trees in late winter or early spring to ...

The post When and How to Thin Fruit Trees for Beginners is by Jerad Bryant and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, hydroponic gardening, and aquaponic gardening blog. Thinning ...

I won’t get any peaches from my trees this year. A lot of fruit trees had their fruit blossoms killed with extreme cold. For those lucky enough to have fruit set, here is a reminder to thin your fruit ...

Q. Last year I had about a dozen apples on our tree. This spring it flowered so profusely it looked like a snowball and now it has so many apples we had problems with limbs breaking. It's had more ...

Snowballs of bloom followed by miniature fruits tell of branches soon to be bowed by the weight of large and luscious peaches, apples, pears and plums. Large and luscious, that is, if you pluck some ...

Fruit thinning plays a crucial role in apple production, balancing crop load to ensure optimum fruit size, colour, firmness and overall quality. This cultural practice involves the deliberate removal ...

Q: I should have listened to your advice about thinning apple trees. The main horizontal limb on our Haralson apple tree broke halfway through under the heavy load of apples. I mowed around that tree ...

SEATTLE — "Do you love apples? Well if you don't prune your apple tree, you aren't gonna get many apples, so you need to get out there and prune your fruit tree!" said gardening expert Ciscoe Morris.

Chemically thinning tree fruit is becoming a more viable and versatile way to increase marketable yield and substantially reduce labor costs, participants in a recent Idaho State Horticultural Society ...