Summer Pruning

 All cherries, peaches, plums, greengages, damsons, and apricots ought to just be pruned in midsummer to keep away from contamination by a staggering contagious sickness known as silver leaf. Plum trees don't need as exact pruning as apples and pears, yet they actually benefit from introductory preparation and the diminishing of old wood to guarantee they produce however much natural product as could be expected.

Summer pruning for natural product trees (timing July to September)

Pear, apples, and quinces in predominate/semi-bantam rootstock need summer pruning. This is the fundamental strategy for pruning for confined structures like cordons, espaliers, fans, and pyramids in any united rootstock. Summer pruning permits daylight to age the leafy foods great editing the next year. The essential standards for summer pruning pear and apple trees are the accompanying:

• Eliminate upstanding, enthusiastic development totally

• Scale back new shoots (laterals) more than 20cm (8in) long developing from the primary stem to three leaves over the basal bunch of leaves.

• Scale back new shoots developing from existing side shoots (sub-laterals) to one leaf over the basal group

Try not to prune when it is dump  and remember to clean your secateurs.