stooling
- Subject: stooling
- From: P* M*
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:03:51 -0500
ECPep@aol.com wrote:
>Stooling is a pruning technique used for various purposes. You raise a shrub
>to a reasonably healthy state and while still young you cut off the entire
>shrub to just above the ground. Spring is the time here as we never know what
>is alive until we see a few swelling buds.
What an excellent description! Very enlightening and interesting about
the basket weavers, too. I learn a little something from you folks
every day!
I *stooled* my Rose of Sharon bush this spring, and didn't even know
that's what I was doing! LOL! I was mad at it cuz I thought it was dead
after years of nursing it gingerly to a spindly shrub. I whacked it
off, and stared at the whacked off nubbins for about a week, I bought a
replacement bush for its place and when I yanked it out of the ground,
there was GREEN GROWTH at the base! I was still mad at it, but
transplanted it to another newly prepared garden and guess what? It's
about 4 feet tall and the limbs are as straight as an arrow!!
Thanks for the excellent information.
Pat
pattm@execpc.com
zone 5 SE WI - too warm and too humid, but it IS August!
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