To prune dwarf fruit trees, trim back about one-third of the growth each year during the dormant period and make angled cuts 2 inches out from the trunk to avoid damage or rotting. Keep a dwarf fruit tree properly pruned to encourage fruit production with instructions from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening.
Categories: Pruning Videos
Tagged: also-apologise, avoid-damage, between-these, dormant-period, dwarf-fruit, each-year, flowers, gardening, howto & style, inches-out, plant, plants, pruning, transplanting
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- February 19, 2009 – 10:16 am
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- By ehowgarden
By pruning an overgrown apple tree into a vase cut, the top branches are thinned out to make room for more fruit production. Trim out the lighter-colored branches to properly maintain an apple tree with instructions from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening.
Categories: Pruning Videos
Tagged: apple, flowers, gardening, gardens, harvesting, herbs, howto & style, make-room, overgrown-apple, plant, thinned-out, transplanting, video-on-gardening
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- February 19, 2009 – 10:16 am
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- By ehowgarden
Pruning an orange tree is done in the fall after it is finished producing fruit for the season, and trimming away the light-colored branches near the top and middle of the tree will encourage more fruit growth for the following year.
Categories: Pruning Videos
Tagged: away-the-light, flowers, fruits, gardens, harvesting, light, more-fruit, near-the-top, plant, plants, season, the-following, tree, vegetables
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- February 18, 2009 – 3:16 pm
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- By ehowgarden
Prune a pear tree when it is young to give it a good shape. As the tree gets older, prune away dead branches that block sunlight and attract bugs.
Categories: Pruning Videos
Tagged: dead-branches, from-getting, from-the-owner, gets-older, growing, howto & style, owner, pear, pears, plant-nursery, planting, pruning, video-on-pear
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- February 18, 2009 – 1:31 pm
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- By ehowgarden
Learn what you can be doing in the garden during the winter to get ready for spring
Categories: Gardening Tips
Tagged: during-the-winter, during-winter, garden, leeks, lenten, organic, perennial, randa, ray, rose
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- February 17, 2009 – 12:33 pm
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- By headgardener2u
This video explains and demonstrates proper techniques for pruning concord grape vines for the winter months. Provided by the Lake Erie Regional Grape Program.
Categories: Pruning Videos
Tagged: cornell, extension, fredonia, lake, patty-skinkis, plant, regional-grape, research, the-right, the-winter, tree, video, video-explains, vineyards, wine
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- February 16, 2009 – 8:43 am
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- By LERGPvids
This is a typical example of the sort of ignorant and brutal pruning I see very often. Of course the owner of this tree has every right to treat it like this, and I mean them no offence
Categories: Pruning Videos
Tagged: advice, apple-trees, brutal-pruning, herbs, jessica-smith, opposite, style, think-it-looks, tree, typical-example
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- February 15, 2009 – 8:27 am
- Author:
- By stephenhayesuk
Continuing a morning’s work in a friend’s back garden orchard. As discussed, there are 2 main reasons for growing an apple tree in your garden, fruit production and beauty. Ideally the 2 things can be combined
Categories: Gardening Tips
Tagged: apple, apples-on-open, commercial, education, garden, live, orchard, production, prune, restore, stephen, summer, tree-or-three
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- February 14, 2009 – 2:03 pm
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- By philthegardener
Second of six videos on sensitively restoring some old apple trees in a small backyard orchard.
Categories: Gardening Tips
Tagged: apple, apple-trees, education, fruit, grafting, live, obviously-dead, remove-large, restoration, restore, small-backyard, vids-on-how
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- February 14, 2009 – 1:32 pm
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- By admin
Julia and I had the opportunity on February 14th 2009 to help some friends who had moved into a house with a mature garden and some old fruit trees, mainly apples and 2 pears, which were somewhat overgrown. I am putting up half a dozen videos to show roughly what we did.
Categories: Gardening Tips
Tagged: favourite, fruitwise, fungal-diseases, garden, julia, orchard, overgrown-fruit, rootstock, silky, trees, while-the-wood
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- February 14, 2009 – 12:38 pm
- Author:
- By eHow