You can shorten these branches by making a slanted cut perpendicular to the nearest fruit spur, where you want the tree branch to end. Cut right above the spur or bud, about a 1/4-inch away from it.

Broken branches and limbs on apple trees can sometimes be repaired. A broken branch that is still partly attached can be reattached with grafting tape, and eventually the tree will mend itself.

An extremely heavy fruit load will not only stress the tree’s resources but will also result in broken branches. Removing up to 90% of fruit also means that the remaining fruit will be larger ...

The best time to prune most fruit trees is in late winter or early spring, says Boersma, while the tree is still dormant, but ...

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A third maintenance stage is one that many trees are likely to be in very soon: full-sized fruit bearing. August is the time of year when many gardeners will add support to the branches of their ...

KUSA - Wet, heavy snow over the weekend broken hundreds - if not thousands - of branches around the Denver metro area. Branches littered yards, driveways, sidewalks and roads as city crews worked ...

Those types of problems can be easily avoided by making sure fruiting branches are growing at a wider angle. An angle of at least 60 degrees between the trunk and branch gives the strongest ...

With trees grown in a fertilized lawn, rain can move the nitrogen in lawn fertilizer past the grass roots where the fruit tree takes it up. Do not apply fertilizer to lawn grass within five feet ...

Greenwood Village: Cut branches to less than 10 feet; place at curb or roadway. Call Public Works, 303-708-6100 or email [email protected]. Douglas County: the Slash-mulch site ...