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- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: Pruning (in particular, a sugar maple and a linden)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.135537.146@janus.arc.ab.ca>
- From: thacker@RHEA.ARC.AB.CA
- Date: 23 Nov 92 13:55:35 MDT
- Reply-To: thacker@RHEA.ARC.AB.CA
- References: <watpod78.722536946@cunews>
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- In article <watpod78.722536946@cunews>, watpod78@alfred.carleton.ca (Phil Culhane) writes:
- >Help!
- >
- >From what I understand, most of the guys who work for companies that
- >prune trees just kind of look at your tree and say "Hey, yeah, how but
- >that one?" ZZZZZINNNNNGGGG!! Branch gone. I'd like to learn how to
- >prune properly. Is there a bible of proper tree pruning?
- >
- >Phil
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- Don't know about the pruning bible, but whatever you do,
- DON'T PRUNE A SUGAR MAPLE IN THE WINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Come spring, it would bleed all over, like it had been tapped
- with dozens of spigots (well, depends on how many cuts you make).
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- For maples and birches, prune them in late spring to mid summer
- when the sap is not running and the tree has a chance to heal
- up before winter.
-