RENOVATION: NOT A KITCHEN
(The following is adapted from my book THE PRUNING BOOK, available from the usual sources or directly from me, signed, on this website.)
Renovation Instead of Despair
How many of us have inherited neglected, overgrown, old apple trees with our property? Yes, such trees do have charm, their gnarled, elbowed branches seemingly ready to reach out to offer a hug. Their fruits, however, usually leave much to be desired. More often than not they’re too small, too high in the tree, and too pest-ridden. These problems are largely the result of unfettered growth, the tree growing so large and dense with branches that it has shaded itself into nonproductivity and disease-inducing dankness.
No need for despair: such a tree can be returned to its former glory by “renovation,” as corrective pruning of an old tree is called. Read more
