Re: pruning question

Donna,
One tip that has stuck with me from a pruning talk is to hold up your hand, then bend down the little finger and the ring finger. Now the 3 fingers left are your tool to know which is the strong and the weak crotch angle. The thumb and the first finger represent a good strong angle. The pointer finger and the middle finger represent a weak angle. He gave lots of reasons why that is so... like the first one has more room for cells... but really all I retained is which one is a good angle and which one you should try to prune out.
I hope that made sense!
Tricia

----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:37 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] pruning question


Well grab your favorite pruning shears and come on down :)

LOL! If you think that tree needs pruning, you should see another one! I am
seriously thinking of digging it out and trashing it since it is a very
small tree. A storm last year about took it out. It lost so many branches I
should have put it out of it's misery then.

Donna

Pruning is one of my favorite garden chores.
    Ceres

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index