Gardening and Horticulture - Are you getting what you need to Prune & repair your trees?
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marturo
01-26-04, 12:40 PM
As I sit here with an inch of Ice all over the roads & trees my mind is thinking of the Trees. The Trees that need pruned those with broken branches & the borers that need removed in the Peaches & other stone fruit trees.
Fruit, ornmentals, Trees of all kinds will need work next month, & now is the time to get tools & plans ready.
I use 3 sizes of Bow Saws, a small 12" a 24" & a 3 footer, all need new blades each year. Good quality hand cutters both the small one hand type & the larger two hand type.
Then theres the pole trimmer with curved saw & hook rope pull cutter. These come in handy if you don't have or can't work off a ladder.
I also use a spray & brush on Tree wound dressing, that before we waste to much time debating on the other opinion of not using anything on the wound. Look it up yourselves & make your own mind up, on using or not using.
One given is, a tree like any living thing heals faster from a clean cut, rather than a splintery mess caused by dull cutting tools. Sharp saw blades & new pruners unless you have the high quality ones you can sharpen, or replace the blades.
Yes I have 3 Chain saws also & I have damaged trees due to the weight & lack of control you get. Not so with a Swedish Bow Saws of differing sizes. Iv'e tried a little of everything over the last 3 decades & in time comes Garden wisdom. I remember pruning my first Apple tree :) I'm lucky it lived LOL. I was not a born pruner, I had to learn to do it myself, from some very good Teachers.
We have just scrached the surface, once we get our tools hand,& eye protection together it's time to plan how we want to shape, trim & repair the different trees & bushes we have.
For those of you who have been triming & pruning your trees & bushes. How about sharing some ideas you have found with us, that works well on Winter Pruning. Also for those who have not done this yet, & want to get your plans ready please just ask away. Tools & pruning plans, this is the time to get ready & next month we will get outside & start our 2004 Gardening season :) .
Fruit trees will need a Dormant oil spray & a Lime Sulpher spray after that. This will save you so much trouble later on it is a 10 in importance to do every year.
http://www.felcostore.com/pruners.jsp Check these out! I'd walk a mile for a felco pruning product & DIY has them all.
Fruit, ornmentals, Trees of all kinds will need work next month, & now is the time to get tools & plans ready.
I use 3 sizes of Bow Saws, a small 12" a 24" & a 3 footer, all need new blades each year. Good quality hand cutters both the small one hand type & the larger two hand type.
Then theres the pole trimmer with curved saw & hook rope pull cutter. These come in handy if you don't have or can't work off a ladder.
I also use a spray & brush on Tree wound dressing, that before we waste to much time debating on the other opinion of not using anything on the wound. Look it up yourselves & make your own mind up, on using or not using.
One given is, a tree like any living thing heals faster from a clean cut, rather than a splintery mess caused by dull cutting tools. Sharp saw blades & new pruners unless you have the high quality ones you can sharpen, or replace the blades.
Yes I have 3 Chain saws also & I have damaged trees due to the weight & lack of control you get. Not so with a Swedish Bow Saws of differing sizes. Iv'e tried a little of everything over the last 3 decades & in time comes Garden wisdom. I remember pruning my first Apple tree :) I'm lucky it lived LOL. I was not a born pruner, I had to learn to do it myself, from some very good Teachers.
We have just scrached the surface, once we get our tools hand,& eye protection together it's time to plan how we want to shape, trim & repair the different trees & bushes we have.
For those of you who have been triming & pruning your trees & bushes. How about sharing some ideas you have found with us, that works well on Winter Pruning. Also for those who have not done this yet, & want to get your plans ready please just ask away. Tools & pruning plans, this is the time to get ready & next month we will get outside & start our 2004 Gardening season :) .
Fruit trees will need a Dormant oil spray & a Lime Sulpher spray after that. This will save you so much trouble later on it is a 10 in importance to do every year.
http://www.felcostore.com/pruners.jsp Check these out! I'd walk a mile for a felco pruning product & DIY has them all.
marturo
02-07-04, 09:37 PM
I was asked this question & I'll answer with the answer I was given. After spending a lifetime growing up in the Tropics I made my way to Central Ohio for 7 years.
An old Farmer that lived down the road from our Farm grew many Apples & pears. He told me that when it was so cold out I did not like it, that was the time to Prune the trees.
When it's cold 40 and below for weeks the trees are asleep & the bugs & Fungi & Bactieria were not growing. What better time is there he asked me? That hard won bit of wisdom made perfect sense to me, & that was 1974.
I have not had to amputate a limb nor have I lost a tree by pruning during the cold of Febuary. Now if your in North Ga you may have to prune in late Jan just ask you County Agent.
An old Farmer that lived down the road from our Farm grew many Apples & pears. He told me that when it was so cold out I did not like it, that was the time to Prune the trees.
When it's cold 40 and below for weeks the trees are asleep & the bugs & Fungi & Bactieria were not growing. What better time is there he asked me? That hard won bit of wisdom made perfect sense to me, & that was 1974.
I have not had to amputate a limb nor have I lost a tree by pruning during the cold of Febuary. Now if your in North Ga you may have to prune in late Jan just ask you County Agent.