Free-standing fruit trees or bush trees ... Shortening others to side branches and thinning overcrowded spurs also helps stimulate new productive shoots.

If two branches parallel each other, one shades the other, so remove the least desirable branch. Learn to identify “fruit spurs” on fruit trees. These are 2- to 6-inch spurs (branches) with buds on ...

In practical terms, this means leaving one fruit on every spur (that's the stem on which the tree's blooms appear). With pears, you should leave two fruits every 6 inches on the branch instead of one.

Ross CourtneyFollowing a deep winter cold spell, many Washington wine grape growers opted to leave more buds on longer spurs ...

But he could not disguise his thrill at the prospect of Moore taking centre-stage for Spurs. “Sometimes, young players are exciting but you can see pitfalls down the road, but I don’t see that ...