Fruit Tree Pruning Basics! 🌳Pruning your fruit trees is essential in keeping them healthy and manageable. 🍏Heading and Thinning Cuts are the cuts you need to practice and learn well. 🍎A Heading cut is one that is made somewhere along the branch or limb that reduces its size. 🌳This is especially helpful in managing the size of a dwarf fruit tree, they won’t stay small unless you prune them! 🍐It is best to make a heading cut above an outward facing bud to take advantage of the hormonal change

John Strang from UK Department of Agriculture shares the basics of pruning fruit trees...best time is in the Spring! | Tim Farmer's Country Kitchen

Last week gave me a few beautiful days that were perfect for trimming the apple trees. These apple trees were planted as whips four years ago, and each one is being pruned and shaped into an open vase style. Open vase literally means opening up the center of the tree with the branches growing more laterally. We trim fruit trees for multiple reasons: - Better air circulation - Help the sun reach all the fruit - Make it easier to pick fruit - Control and rid any diseased branches The two important