YouTube: A Winter Pruning Guide for Your Fruit Trees
Winter pruning is an important part of fruit tree care. In our latest video, Christy shares step-by-step instructions to guide you through the process.
Learn how to prune oregano for continued production
YouTube: How and When to Prune Oregano
Our latest video shares how and when to prune oregano. At the end of the season oregano can look pretty sad. Christy walks you through the process.
Summer pruning for fruit trees
YouTube: Summer Pruning – What is It and Why Do It?
Our latest YouTube video walks you through the process of summer pruning. What is it and how do you summer prune? We break it down for you.
Podcast: Grow Fruit Trees Fast with Susan Poizner
This week our guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week is Susan Poizner. Susan is an urban orchardist in Toronto, Canada and both an award-winner author and educator.
YouTube: Pinching Basil – How to Do It Right and Why
It's basil season, and to keep your plants growing strong, you need to employ a key garden task: pinching basil. Most gardening books describe how to pinch basil in a way that isn't quite accurate, or at least, not the best way to do it. Our latest video breaks down how and why to pinch basil.
YouTube: Pruning Citrus Trees – How, When, and Why
We hear from a lot of gardenerds asking, "when is the best time for pruning citrus trees?" Well, we share the answer and so much more in our latest YouTube video on pruning citrus.
Kellogg's Breakfast Tomato
Ask Gardenerd: Pruning Tomatoes
Summer is the perfect time for this question from Jeff Bremer: "Hi Christy, What's your opinion on pinching-off the "branches" that sprout out of tomato plants? Some of my friends don't pinch at all, but my neighbor pinches his plants back so he has only one "stem." Thx, Jeff " Ah yes, to pinch or not to pinch, that is the question. What are we pinching? Side shoots and suckers. Side shoots are additional vines that grow from the base…
Buds are already forming in our warm winter climate.
Pruning Fruit Trees
We've got a new YouTube video for you on Pruning Fruit Trees. There are so many details about pruning specific trees, but before all of that, you need to know the basics. Watch our latest video with guest Jessika Mitchell to learn the proper way to prune a fruit tree. You'll learn about best practices (like disinfecting your tools before and after pruning), find out what to look for when making pruning cuts, and discover how to know what to…
Young tomatoes in cages - Rule #1: give them proper support
Pruning Tomatoes
Today we have a guest post from James White, a self-described kombucha tea-sipping blogger who focuses on green building and sustainable living via his family blog Homey Improvements. He's offering advice on how to prune tomatoes for those who are pruning-averse. Take it away James! How to Prune Tomatoes The first year I planted tomatoes they all died. Year after year, I’ve made every mistake you possibly can when it comes to tomatoes but I’ve learned so much that now I…
Prune rosemary after it finishes flowering
Summer Pruning
These Dog Days of summer are challenging. It's too hot to plant or work in the garden, but garden is starting to look ragged as plants near the end of their life cycle. What to do? It's time for a little clean up. Summer pruning helps in so many ways. It clears away dead or diseased plant material. It keeps home-orchard fruit trees in check. It refreshes the garden with a snip or two, here and there. Best of all,…