Kitchen Garden Forum

I pruned my well established apple and pear trees back very harsh last winter. I have good leaf growth but no fruit which i expected from the books i have read. Do i need to do summer pruning as i don't have fruit

Did you see any blossom this spring? I suspect that hard pruning has removed most of the fruiting wood. Shoots that grow one year ripen into wood which blossoms and fruits the next year. Depending on how hard you've pruned, you ought to get a crop next year from most of the growth that you're now seeing. I'm guessing that you hard pruned in order to keep your tree in bounds (I can think of no other reason to do so), in which case you should summer prune to shorten the new growths while encouraging fruiting spurs to form, all the time keeping the trees compact.