My Experience With Pruning Fruit Trees

By: Jessica A

If you want to extend the life of your tree and encourage it to grow better fruit, you have to prune it. Pruning fruit trees is the thing to do, because that allows sunlight to reach all areas of the tree. Swearing that I wouldn't call someone to do the job for me, I armed myself with my best sewing scissors and a ladder. I managed to get the ladder opened after thirty minutes and a pinched thumb, and then I climbed right up that thing feeling like Jack on the beanstalk.

I realized I knew nothing about pruning fruit trees as soon as I reached the first limb, but I decided it couldn't be that difficult. I attempted to cut a smaller limb from my tree, and realized that the scissors wouldn't do the job. So I got my husband's chain saw.

I figured it had to be better than those scissors. I didn't realize how loud it would sound and it startled me. I threw it on the ground and toppled backwards off the ladder. Luckily, we have soft grass. Cursing that stupid chain saw, I went back up the ladder with it, and started it again. This time I was prepared.

I was about to learn that chain saws are very sharp. I tried cutting that small limb again. The chain saw was aggressive and chomped into six and half limbs. About 1/4th of my tree was lying on the ground now. My precious tree! If I wasn't ticked off before, I sure was now. Not to mention the fact that when those limbs fell, one of them hit me right in the forehead and left a big scratch. I would not give up.

This time I got out the hedge shears and climbed up the tree itself. How hard can pruning fruit trees possibly be? I accidentally kicked the ladder over on the way up.

Boiling mad, I waited in that bleeping fruit tree until my husband found me in the tree, bleeding from the head, with dirt stuck to my butt. I walked back to the house as my husband laughed, but as I did I gave that tree a withering look and muttering, "Until next year!"

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