Beneath the Trees: A Tree Care Website

As the warm spring weather gets closer, the weather is slowly starting to get warmer, and there are chores to do. One of the tasks that needs to be done before spring brings new plant growth is the trimming of your fruit trees. You want to make sure that they are well pruned to promote healthy growth, bountiful harvests, and attractive spring flowers. The following guide will help you know when to prune your fruit trees, how to deal with damage, and what care needs to be done before spring arrives:

Start Preparing to Prune After the Last Storm and Danger of Frost Has Passed

It is important to time the pruning of your fruit trees perfectly. You do not want to start too late and expose the tree to insects, disease, and fungus, but you also do not want to start too late. Therefore, watch the weather and schedule your tree pruning after the last winter storm. Pruning during cold weather will expose the tree to freezing temperatures and could cause frost damage that can affect the health of the tree, as well as your autumn harvest.

Inspecting Trees for Damage Due to Frost and Heavy Snow and Trimming the Affected Branches

The winter weather may have brought snow, ice, and cold temperatures that can cause a lot of damage to your fruit trees. Therefore, one of the first things that you should do when you are ready to start pruning is inspecting the trees for signs of cracked or fallen branches and bark that has been damaged by frost. Prune the affected areas of the trees to ensure they are healthy when new growth starts coming in spring.

Pruning Fruit Trees to Make Harvesting Fruits Easier and Prevent Damage Due to Overloaded Branches

If you have older fruit trees on your property, overgrown branches can be a serious problem when fruits weigh them down. This can cause branches to be overloaded with fruit and break under the stress, which not only harms the tree but also exposes it and the fruit to problems with insects and diseases that can quickly get out of control during the warmer weather. Therefore, it is a good idea to cut back large and old branches to reduce stress and to make it easier to harvest the fruit in autumn.

Using the Annual Pruning to Shape Trees to Promote Healthy Growth and Improve Your Autumn Fruit Harvest

Fruit trees need to be pruned every year to help promote healthy growth, as well as give them an attractive form. In addition, the annual pruning of your trees will also help improve harvests because new growth will produce more and healthier fruit when trees have been pruned properly before the spring weather has arrived.

These are some tips that will help you with the care your fruit trees are going to need before spring to promote healthy new growth. If you need help with pruning fruit trees and other tree species on your property, contact a tree pruning service.