Gardening columnist Don Kinzler addresses how to remove trunk suckers or basal suckers, and also answers questions about reworking a perennial flower bed and mulching around a tree.

Fruit trees must be heavily pruned every year or more to produce fruit, says Jean-Claude Rochat, owner of Arborist Now, Inc. ...

When we think of a tree, we usually picture a single big trunk that divides into branches overhead. Yet sometimes trees may sprout small stems sprouting from the base of the trunk, down by the ...

Those are water sprouts, and they don’t do anything for your fruit. The same goes for the suckers coming up from the base of the tree.

Early spring, before fruit or foliage has even formed, is the recommended time for pruning fruit trees. What does pruning have to do with fruit weight management? Quite a lot.