Fruit Tree Pruning Basics! 🌳Pruning your fruit trees is essential in keeping them healthy and manageable. 🍏Heading and Thinning Cuts are the cuts you need to practice and learn well. 🍎A Heading cut is one that is made somewhere along the branch or limb that reduces its size. 🌳This is especially helpful in managing the size of a dwarf fruit tree, they won’t stay small unless you prune them! 🍐It is best to make a heading cut above an outward facing bud to take advantage of the hormonal change

John Strang from UK Department of Agriculture shares the basics of pruning fruit trees...best time is in the Spring! | Tim Farmer's Country Kitchen