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About Pruning Fruit Trees

By Lis Garrett

Pruning fruit trees is a critical step in overall tree maintenance and crop production. Proper pruning of fruit trees allows for the formation of a strong framework of branches and enables them to support high yields of good-quality fruit. Without adequate pruning, fruit becomes too heavy on the branches, causing them to break. Consistently removing dead, diseased and broken limbs also allows...

Why Do Plants Need the Sun?

By Keri Honea

Plants need the sun to perform photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light energy from the sun, carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen. Photosynthesis has two serial reactions: light-dependent and light-independent reactions. The light-dependent reaction occurs first in the cycle, which requires the sunlight. In the light-dependent reactions, the chlorophyll in plants...

How to Care for Lavender Plants

By Giselle Diamond

Before you learn how to care for lavender plants, here's something you may or may not know about lavender itself. Lavender has an exquisite and unique fragrance that many brands of perfumes, soaps, fabric softeners and shampoos owe their popularity to. Lavender is also effective as an aromatic, therapy to treat depression, insomnia or anxiety, and makes a healthy, herbal tea, too. Of course,...