Recently I did an article on fruit trees and avoiding small fruit. Small fruit is fine if you are making jams or jellies, but if you are peeling and slicing the fruit a larger fruit is easier to work with. 
photo credit: Franck Mahon
Fruit trees a wonderful addition to any backyard. They provide shade, landscaping and more important fresh fruit. But they also need maintenance to keep the healthy and producing nice crops. Growing up on a piece of property with over 500 trees I am used to fruit harvests and the proper care of fruit trees.
Location, disease control and fertilizing the trees are important. Equally important is the proper pruning of a tree. Pruning a tree keeps the tree healthy and a size that you can work with. Picking fruit off a tree with the use of a ladder is much more difficult than standing on the ground.
There are several other benefits of pruning a tree and they are shown in this You Tube which was sent to me by Jeff from Naturehills.com With his permission I have linked to the video which is full of pruning information that you should find helpful.
How to Trim your Fruit Tree video
Some of the best memories I have of the farm I grew up on were the fruit tress, particularly the peach trees. Heading out the door on an early fall morning and picking off a fresh peach that had the chill of the night but was being warmed by the sun is a memory that I will never forget.
So add fruit trees to you property and prune new ones or the old ones that you already have. A fruit tree will add beauty and fruit to your backyard for years to come with a little care and pruning.
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