Comments on: Apple Pruning

By: Kevin Kossowan

Kevin Kossowan — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:04:31 +0000

VGC – I quite enjoyed spending my holiday perusing catalogs and making seed purchases online. I think it may become a holiday tradition for me!

By: Vegetable Garden Cook

Vegetable Garden Cook — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:24:59 +0000

I’ve already spent a small fortune on seeds. I’m ready for spring dangit!

By: Kevin Kossowan

Kevin Kossowan — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:33:33 +0000

Valerie – I’d be happy to take a look at your tree. I received a gift of a very useful pruning saw that now makes the job enjoyable. I’m still green, but have pruned ours for the past 3 years with good success. It used to grow down to the ground, and now you can walk under it – that’s how much work it needed.

By: A Canadian Foodie

A Canadian Foodie — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:16:02 +0000

Your tree is a giant compared to ours. I usually prune the same time as you – maybe a bit later…. but pre-spring… though the apple tree has not needed it for a few years…but as I sit here looking, it could use a little off the top. It has actually grown like a Cinderella tree. Not much to look at as a baby, but each branch grew out just where one was need in a circular motion. It is a very pretty tree…. so, next time you are by, I would like suggestions about this. Because, believe me – I am also like you in the “zone” thing. The poor little mountain ash in the front yard used to be the largest tree in the yard. It was growing only one direction and for the first three years I cut off about 1/4 of the new grown each year to “bush it out”. Then it just stopped growing. It is alive… still reaching toward the one direction with all its might… but hasn’t grown (not have I pruned it) it 5 years!
:)
valerie