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As winter draws to a close, the orchards around me buzz with activity.
It's pruning season.
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Everywhere I look there are branches and suckers strewn carelessly about, as if some hurricane had come through town while I was sleeping.
Farmers prune when there are no leaves out and the sap is in the root.
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The tree's new growth will start on solid footing when most of last year's suckers have been pruned away.
Otherwise this year's fruit will pull the branches down.
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I have helped my father prune his orchard and felt sorry for the trees when I "clipped their fingers."
But trees grow more vigorously and more solidly when they're pruned, and are much less likely to split. |
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Grapes won't even bare much fruit when they're not trimmed.
Are you pruning as you grow? Or is your tree becoming many branched and endlessly diverse? |
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