Growing your own peaches is easier than it seems.

A pair of pruning shears in March can decide the fate of an entire summer harvest. One careless cut can remove future fruit, weaken a plant, or push growth in the wrong direction long before warm ...

Pruning is a necessary task when you’re gardening, but did you know there’s a right and wrong way to do it? It’s not as simple as just hacking away at pieces of your plants and hoping for the best. In ...

Pruning cuts should be made close to the branch collar and not flush against the trunk. These are “thinning cuts” and the entire branch is removed from the tree. “Heading cuts” will remove only one ...

What’s the hardest thing, psychologically, for normally reasonable gardeners to do? For decades I have extolled folks to ...

Nearly 60 residents gathered at the Old Firehouse Community Center, 100 Avon Belden Road, on Feb. 12 for a free fruit tree pruning class hosted by the city of Avon Lake and the Avon Lake Tree ...

The Righetti FFA are the state champions after competing in the finals for fruit tree pruning at Fresno State University last week. The team consists of Evelyn Pera (4th high individual), Aaron Davila ...

A step-by-step guide to cultivating delicious figs at home.

I find that fruits and vegetables grown at home taste particularly good. Prune fruit trees in our area between late February and early March before the buds begin to swell. The branching habits are ...

Another big no-no this early is cleaning up leaves and trampling through your garden once the snow melts. For one thing, many of the dormant insects are still resting. If you start throwing away ...

View post: Bam Adebayo Smashes Scoring Record Set by Kobe Bryant in 2006 Late winter to early spring is prime time for pruning trees and shrubs. Pruning now allows better visibility, faster healing, ...

Each method of cutting plants serves a specific purpose.