Msu extension provides an educational opportunity for you to gain knowledge and experience incorporating various types of fruit into your diet. Growing fruit near your home is a fun way to put more fresh produce into your diet.
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Msu extension fruit trees. By cheryl moore gough msu extension horiculturist retired. Msu extension beginning farmer webinar series getting started with growing fruit trees date. Fruit trees require much care for proper growth and to avoid damage from pathogens and pests.
Beginning farmer beginning farmer fruit beginning farmer webinar series. Getting started with pruning fruit trees. If you decided a tree is worth saving here are a few basic pruning steps to rejuvenation recommended by michigan state university extension.
Remove all dead and diseased branches. Do the trees bear good fruit. Msu extension senior educator bob tritten will provide an overview of theory and technique for michigans commonly grown tree fruit species.
Although we prune fruit trees to maintain their shape and to remove dead and. Gough msu professor of horticulture. For stone fruit scion rooting is less of a problem when deep planted.
This is an annual. Are the trees generally healthy. Check out the resources.
Growing fruit trees in the backyard gary l. Heilig michigan state university extension february 1 2012 the pleasure of picking and eating tree ripened fruit from your own backyard is rare indeed for most people but it is quite possible with some work and determination. Msu extension provides educational programs and publications based on applied research for michigan fruit crops including apples pears blueberries chestnuts brambles plums cherries grapes peaches and strawberries.
This program was part of the 12 webinar michigan state university extension 2019 beginning farmer webinar series. None the less experience has taught us that planting so that the original union is slightly above soil line is still a good policy. Proper pruning results in improved fruit quantity and quality.
If you need additional help visit the gardening in michigan website to contact a fruit specialist or view online classes on growing strawberries and grapes and view other gardening videos at the ingham county msu extension website. Michigan state university extension helps people improve their lives by bringing the vast knowledge resources of msu directly to individuals communities and businesses. Bob tritten michigan state university extension.
This fact sheet gives dos and donts for the home fruit grower. Diseased wood the main objective of pruning is to increase fruit production. January 30 2019 presenter.
These methods work best for apple and pear trees. While the union can be buried on cherries plums and peaches without fear of scion rooting excessively deep planting can. Be sure to trim all large cuts to their.
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