If you're growing fruit trees, then harvesting the (literal) fruits of your labor is the most exciting part. To speed that ...

Pruning prevents your apple tree from being invaded by diseases and pests that could kill it and allows it to grow healthy and provide delicious fruit. The best time to prune your apple tree is ...

and he favors delaying apple tree pruning until the time when the flower buds start swelling and through the start of leaf emergence. As Walla indicates, the risk of black rot canker fungus ...

This helps pruning cuts seal more rapidly, leaving less tissue open to invasion by the black rot fungus. Walla’s observations about delayed pruning are well worth noting. I’m following his ...