Pruning your pear tree regularly not only increases your fruit yield and protects the plant from disease, it's also necessary for structural support.

Knowing how to prune a pear tree is essential as December approaches. The colder weather is the perfect time to shape your ...

Fall is fast approaching, but gardening season isn’t over yet. We’re still getting plenty of questions to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension ...

Thinning the fruit on your trees will pay you big dividends, giving you the largest, sweetest annual crops. Only 5 percent of a tree's flowers need to set fruit to provide a generous crop. Most fruit ...

Those of us who have fruit trees have been enjoying their beautiful flowers for the last few weeks. Now that there’s piles of pink petals all over the ground, it’s time to think about thinning that ...