Top pruning tipsfor beginners

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Bob explains how summer pruning can further boost results

Even a small country garden can contain an ‘orchard’ of trees and shrubs, so you can fill your fruit bowl with home-grown apples, pears, plums and more

If your apple tree has become overgrown, or you’ve inherited a neglected tree, now is the perfect time to give it a summer prune. By pruning in summer rather than winter, you remove some of the tree’s

Once your plants are spent, give them a tidy and create more plants too

Bob explains why we should all be growing pears if we have the room