Just when I think I have all the peaches thinned out, I walk by a branch and see more that need to be pinched off. I feel like I’m deciding who gets to live and who has to die . . even though it’s fruit and I know . . or at least I hope . . it’s not like a living, breathing creature. It kills me to have to do that.
Today . . it’s the apples!
Apples
There are way too many of them on there.
Apples
There are two clusters of three. If they’re on separate branches (can’t tell from the photo and don’t remember), I’ll leave one apple on each branch. If they’re all on the same branch, five come off and one stays. Maybe . . depending on how far apart they are I can leave two. They shouldn’t be closer than 6″ apart. That is hard to do. If I don’t thin them, the fruit will be hard, small and misshapen. Pruning is a good thing . . that’s what I keep telling myself.
shirley swift-bruner says
I feel your pain….i hate to prune also.
dezertsuz says
It’s like bringing up children – a little nip in their natural bends to straighten them up. =)