More and more gardeners are inclined to prune their gardens in the fall or winter. This type of pruning is less painful for trees.
As for the start of the new season, it is important not to miss the deadlines.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told when to prune fruit trees in the spring.
If you start pruning while the air temperature is still low, the trees may not survive the stress, and pruning during sap flow will also not be beneficial.
When to start
1. Ideal weather is considered to be with light frosts – not lower than -5 degrees Celsius.
2. If these are young trees, then only diseased, damaged and crown-thickening shoots are removed.
3. It is important to trim the branches without leaving stumps, making a cut first from below and then from above – this way you can avoid damaging the bark.
It's too late
It is a mistake to prune when the weather gets warmer, after the buds have opened.
Fruit trees do not tolerate this type of pruning well, with the only exception being the peach tree.
It is believed that it can be pruned even during flowering.
The remaining trees at this time may lose nutrients due to the release of sap at the cuts, which will cause drying out and a decrease in yield.
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Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
