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

Key Takeaways Failing to prune trees can lead to structural weakness in limbs and the overall stability of the tree.Weak or too-large trees can cause thousands in damage, threaten injury, and cause ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- While most of us are trying to stay warm, there’s an army of workers braving the cold in an effort to improve this year’s fruit crop. Armed with saws and shears, hundreds of men and ...

MERRILL, Wis. (WSAW) - For a century-old family business, 2024 has delivered a unique opportunity for Helene’s Hilltop Orchard. “We have never pruned apple trees without snow in February,” Helene’s ...

Given the record cold temperatures we have had this winter, it is hard to imagine doing any garden task beyond perusing seed catalogs. The winter however, is a prime time to prune fruit trees. During ...

As the calendar turns to spring with its lengthening days of warm sunshine, flowers begin to appear on fruit trees across Yakima Valley orchards. Early apricot blossoms are emerging in the Lower ...

This great weather really has me concerned! As a “good old Wisconsin boy” (go Pack go), anything above freezing in January — well, actually above zero, the forecasted wind chill for today’s Packer ...

The fruit-tree pruning schedule for the coming months is now available at the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Orchard in North Las Vegas. This Saturday I will teach the ...

Srdjan Acimovic, an assistant professor at Virginia Tech University, shaves away bark to examine the spread of fire blight in a pear tree branch at Oregon State University’s Southern Oregon Research ...