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 ...

The North Olympic Fruit Club's mid-June newsletter offered home orchardists helpful advice on fruit thinning and watering. For this tardy apple grower, the information was a wake-up call to get out ...

Prune in winter to get the most out of the investment of time and money you put into this fall-fruiting tree — that is, lots ...

It might feel like pruning your apple trees in the dead of winter makes no sense. In fact, your dormant trees will thank you ...