Find out how to prune fruit trees properly, plus tips for timing your pruning right.

We asked experts for their advice on when to prune fruit trees by variety, and when to do so in summer, winter, when trees are established and young.

My fruit trees have not been pruned for two or three years. Could you give me some suggestions on how to prune them?

Winter is the time to prune plum and pluot trees. Remove any diseased or broken limbs and prune any overly-long shoots by either heading them back to a side shoot or removing them altogether.

Before or after you prune your peach, apple, pear, citrus or plum trees, apply dormant oil. The oil is an organic control that suffocates scale insects and other pests that winter in the bark ...

If you notice a small, purplish-green, football-shaped plum in the market sometime during the next couple of weeks, you’ve probably spotted a prune plum. Once common, this plum was a favorite… ...

Here is a step-by-step guide to help you properly prune your trees before they start getting leaves.

A: Plums, apricots and peaches all get a bacterial disease called bacterial leaf spot. It is also commonly called shot hole disease, because it looks like someone stood back and shot the tree with ...

Certain plum varieties are somewhat resistant to black knot disease, including Shiro and Santa Rosa, both of which I have grown and, yes, both of which became infected with the disease.