Pruning Fruit Trees
How to get young trees off to a good start and keep mature trees productive. If there's one group of plants that demands regular and careful pruning, it's deciduous fruit trees. Taste the sweetness of a perfectly ripe pear or apricot: That ... [... more]
Do It Yourself |
Complete Guide to Vegetables Fruits & Herbs
 Very complete and detailed: This helpful guide contains instructions for growing fruit and herbs as well as vegetables. It gives climate and soil requirements, and detailed growing instructions. It also discusses various species. This is the only [... more]
$19.95
Amazon.com |
Desert Gardening
Simply the Best: This book fooled me at first glance. I browsed the bookstore and purchased several other books on gardening for hot, arid climates and passed on this book. The lack of color and the obviously amateur photographs in this book led me to [... more]
$22.50
Amazon.com |
Complete Guide to Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs
Very complete and detailed: This helpful guide contains instructions for growing fruit and herbs as well as vegetables. It gives climate and soil requirements, and detailed growing instructions. It also discusses various species. This is the only [... more]
$19.95
Amazon.com |
Pruning Fruiting Plants
Pruning Fruiting Plants: This is the only book you will ever need for pruning fruit trees. Once again, the RHS outdoes itself (as usual) and the many beautiful photographs and drawings inside the book, along with the hows and whys of each individual [... more]
$14.99
Amazon.com |
Training and Pruning Fruit Trees
Proper tree training also opens up the tree canopy to maximize light penetration. For most deciduous tree fruit, flower buds for the current season's crop are formed the previous summer. Light penetration is essential for flower bud development ... [... more]
NC State University Coop Extension |
Shrubs: Ligustrum lucidum
Creamy white flowers on 5 to 8" pyramidal panicles in early summer; unpleasant odor; 0.2" flat blue-black drupe in fall; persists into winter Drought tolerant; excellent screening plant; tolerates severe pruning; fruit attracts birds Sun to ... [... more]
NC State University Coop Extension |
Pruning Apple Trees
Hand pruners come in a variety of styles. This pair has rotating handles. The branch collar is the wrinkled wood close to the trunk. Never cut into the branch collar when pruning. Fruit trees must be pruned every year, usually during the dormant ... [... more]
DIYnet |
Physiology of Pruning Fruit Trees
Woody plants are pruned to maintain a desired size and shape and to promote a certain type of growth. Ornamental plants are pruned to improve the aesthetic quality of the plant, but fruit trees are pruned to improve fruit quality by encouraging ... [... more]
Virginia Tech Extension |
