Walter Reeves answers Atlanta-area lawn and garden questions, such as how to prepare pecan trees for a good crop, and options when yaupon hollies are too much.

Fruit and pecan growers who want to sharpen their pruning skills to enhance growth and yields can learn from the professionals at the Fruit Research Station near Clarksville during a half-day ...

Just briefly, pecans can only produce nuts on new growth, which means they generate a lot of sprouts. The goal of pruning pecans isn't (or shouldn't be) to just eliminate those sprouts, but rather ...

A. Large pecan trees usually do not need major pruning. You can prune most anytime it becomes necessary, but the usual time to remove dead wood or low-hanging branches is late winter. Kathy Huber ...

What I do want to talk about, vis-à-vis pecans, is the potential existing for the current year, and why that potential means you should give a little thought to doing some pre-spring pruning on ...

It is also a time to start pruning pecans and other home fruit trees, expect peaches. Fruit trees certainly will produce larger fruit if pruned later this winter.

Dear Neil: Our young pecan trees have very heavy crops. The trees' limbs are breaking, probably from the weight of the nuts. What can we do? Obviously, we want the ...

Otherwise it’s best to enjoy the spring blooms and then do more restrictive pruning. Q. My pecan tree is at least 14 years old and as tall as our house but has not produced fruits.