However, it needed to be pruned again this year!
My son used a saw and some clippers and he and I worked on it on Sunday afternoon into the evening. I did the grunt work with the wheelbarrow and he did all the trimming on the ladder. Two wheelbarrows full, plus lots of larger branches that I had to individually carry up!
We had to channel that inner farmer again, because neither one of us had ever pruned anything before!
The tree looks pretty good - although hubby seems to feel, we pruned a little too much (:
We won't know until the buds/leaves and blossoms appear so I will keep you informed as the year goes on.
4 comments:
How do you know when it is time to prune it? I think you probably did just fine... :)
I hope it does well. Last time my husband pruned he killed an apple tree, so he's not allowed anymore ;-)
a long time ago we had some neighbors that pruned their tree and we were sure they ruined it...but it came back better than ever!
I think we are often light-handed in the pruning when we really should give it a good trim. I think your tree will be fine. Thanks for linking up to Rural Thursday, Maria. So nice to see you there! :)
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