Peach trees are generally considered easy to grow—but that doesn't mean you can skip pruning. Pruning is an essential step in ensuring that your tree produces as much quality fruit as possible and can ...

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Learn how to stake up citrus trees when you plant them to avoid wind damage and leaning trunks. While most trees, including ...

During and beyond the holiday season, I’d been out of the garden for too long, struggling as I learned how to use a fully ...

I’m Farmer Rich, a fruit and vegetable farmer who uses pruning shears throughout my daily work. I also regularly test and develop consumer products, so I know how to vigorously review pruning ...

"It is just going to look awful – 41 trees all looking like that. In the summer there will be no shade." Councillor Shanika Mahendran defended the decision to prune the trees Ms Mahendran ...

The answer, more likely than not, is that the tree in question was improperly pruned. Where pruning cuts in a tree ... are used as an oregano substitute. Lemon verbena (Aloysia tryphilla) is ...

"It is just going to look awful – 41 trees all looking like that. In the summer there will be no shade." Ms Mahendran, Labour, explained the reason behind the pruning. She said: "In Milton ...

"Only four of the 41 need very severe work done on them," she said. "The others have just been neglected in the last 20 years and just need very careful pruning to make them safe, and not this ...

Our small orchard, planted during a COVID-19 lockdown (see The Land, April 15, 2021) is finally bearing a good crop of fruit.