Pruning Fruit Trees

Late winter pruning is a good time to prune fruit trees because of dormancy and invigorates growth; removes dead, weak, or crossing branches, focusing energy on fewer, stronger branches for a better harvest. Instructor Jonathan Faith will bring an apple tree, pear tree, nectarine tree, and a plum tree to demonstrate how to prune each for fruit production.

In addition to demonstrating how to prune each variety of fruit tree, Jonathan will discuss cross pollination, fertilizers, fungicide and insecticide sprays.

This seminar will take place in the Gresham Japanese Garden’s Kyoudou Center at 219A S. Main Avenue, Gresham, OR 97030

Instructor: Jonathan Faith
Jonathan come from a deep history of being around a copious array of plants. For sixteen years, Faith helped manage his family’s small orchard in Hubbard, Oregon. They had many different varieties of fruit trees.

Jonathan is current store manager at Al’s Garden & Home in Gresham.