Summer Fruit Tree Pruning
Channel: SMSF Master Gardeners
Date: 2017-05-29

Summer pruning maintains a tree's shape and size (keeps them small), encourages fruit on lower branches, allows more sunlight and air circulation into a tree to ripen and color up fruit, prevents branches loaded with fruit from snapping, prevents diseases and pests, and controls fungal problems in apricot and cherry trees.

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