With the right variety, location, and care, you can successfully grow and harvest delicious cherries in your backyard.

Find out how to prune fruit trees properly, plus tips for timing your pruning right.

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It’s difficult to find someone to prune several kinds of fruit trees. In fruit-producing areas, such skilled workers are easier to find.

My fruit trees have not been pruned for two or three years. Could you give me some suggestions on how to prune them?

Pruning can be used to train or direct growth, rejuvenate an overgrown shrub, and increase light to the middle of a fruit tree. It can be used to clean up broken branches.

Pruning is a crucial task for maintaining fruit trees and shrubs. While it may not be as essential for other landscape plants, homeowners often prune to enhance blooms or remove diseased limbs.

"Open-vase" pruning allows fruit to develop inside the tree and on growing branches, explains master gardener Brian Minter.

Most fruit trees are grafted onto semi-dwarf root stocks. But semi-dwarf trees can get up to 35 feet without pruning. I like to keep them at a maximum height of 12 to 15 feet.