With the right variety, location, and care, you can successfully grow and harvest delicious cherries in your backyard.

How do I train a sweet or acid cherry as a bush? First spring after planting: A year old cherry tree will normally have several sidebranches. Select a group of four that are evenly spaced, the lowest ...

Train sweet cherry trees to the open center system with three to five scaffold branches. Sweet cherry trees often grow vertical limbs 6 to 8 feet without branching.

Sweet cherry trees produce cherries for eating while acid ones produce fruit for cooking with. You can either let your tree grow as normal or you can train it to grow against a wall or another ...