Many landscape plants will require pruning at some stage of their life. Plants may need to be pruned to reduce or maintain plant size or to remove dead or damaged material. Pruning is also used to ...

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A pair of pruning shears in March can decide the fate of an entire summer harvest. One careless cut can remove future fruit, weaken a plant, or push growth in the wrong direction long before warm ...

Each method of cutting plants serves a specific purpose.

Winter feels like the perfect time to tidy everything in your garden. With leaves gone and structure exposed, it’s tempting ...

No matter what type of pruning method you favor – vase, open air, summer, winter – the first step is to have the right tools. Contra Costa Master Gardener Keith Silva says using the correct tools ...

Ryobi's USB Lithium tools are smaller than the brand's usual fare, but that doesn't mean they can't be exciting. Here are the ones we're looking forward to.

Just because there’s snow on the ground doesn’t mean there’s nothing to do in the garden until spring. Late winter is often ...

The pruning maven Lee Reich, author of the best-selling "The Pruning Book" (Taunton Press), advises the best time to trim and shape our deciduous shrubs is in late winter or very early spring. Of ...

Proper gardening tool sharpening, such as pruning shears and hedge clippers, make your work easier, and the sharpening can be ...

A gardening friend of mine told me that I should be disinfecting my tools whenever I am out in the garden pruning this winter. Is this really necessary? The purpose of disinfecting tools is to avoid ...