Pruning is at the top of the to-do list in your July garden. Prune out water sprouts — vigorous shoots on the inside of a ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: A farmer checks the avocado fruit for ripen and disease blemish during harvest season. Fruit. If you have a fruit tree that’s tall enough to require more than a ...

A thinning cut removes the branch at its junction with the trunk or limb. This type of cut is demonstrated on a tree in early spring at the University of Maine Agriculture and Forest Experiment ...

When pruning perennials in the spring, leave a few woody stems 8-10" tall for native bees to use this season for nesting. When pruning perennials in the spring, leave a few woody stems 8-10" tall for ...

What’s the hardest thing, psychologically, for normally reasonable gardeners to do? For decades I have extolled folks to adopt some very straightforward and rewarding horticultural practices which, on ...