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Gardening 101: Trimming Your Trees

Pruning should be second nature to you if you have already been growing trees regularly. If you have by no means grown trees before, you might not know about the importance of pruning your tree. If you do not understand anything about pruning, you need to ask for help because it is essential for tree growth. It is simple to prevent many of the trials and tribulations of gardening if you simply asked for help.

Plants and trees will grow better if you’re able to remove the dead or weak branches. This will permit the tree to focus the nutrients to areas that need it. The limbs producing the most fruit, will produce even more, when the dead branches are removed, so that the nutrients can go where they will help the most. Pruning can also help a tree to develop more evenly and not focused on one side. A tree can easily grow bent permanently if there are an excess of branches on one side. A huge mistake that many gardeners make is usually to wait until their trees start to bear fruit before they think about pruning.

Pruning your tree ought to start from the very beginning. Trimming is something that should be carried out even before the tree starts to have any fruit. Should you correctly prune your tree, you will find that you will have better fruit production. Trees that are regularly trimmed look healthier compared to ones that haven’t been pruned. When you start out pruning, you should target the dead and diseased branches. All of these tree limbs usually have little color or won’t have any fruit. Removing the branches without delay should help improve the health of your tree. If you can’t tell about specific branches, wait a little while and the ones which aren’t growing anything will be real obvious.

When two branches are growing too close to each other, cut off the smaller one. When neglected, one branch may cloud the other branch out. Tree limbs need a certain amount of room to thrive so you should have them as far apart from each other as possible. You should also make an attempt to keep the tree well balanced. Your tree will look peculiar if it becomes lopsided. Comprehending the basic knowledge of pruning is important to have healthy trees. You might have just learned a couple of basic parts here, so you should try to learn more by doing more research. The things you need to know about pruning is somewhat dependent on the age of your trees. Formative recommendations for cutting back need to be adopted during the first three years of growth for your trees.

It’s great to have frequent pruning when once your trees are growing well. You’ll be able to locate many books that keep track of the various methods of pruning.

Removing Old Trees

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Sometimes a tree gets to the point where it is necessary to say goodbye to it. It can be a painful choice to make, but sometimes the tree gets too close to the house, gets too diseased, gets an incurable infestation of some pest, or grows too tall and gets close to a power line. If any of these things occur, its best to do the right thing and get rid of the tree. Although you might have spent hours and hours getting the tree to where it is today, it is almost dishonorable to the tree to allow it to suffer in bad conditions.

Once you have made the choice to remove the tree, you need to plan its removal. I can’t begin to count how many windows I’ve seen knocked out or cars I’ve seen crushed because of poor planning in the tree removal process. Decide what direction you want it to fall, and accurately measure to make sure it will fall completely clear of anything else that it could possibly cause damage to.

Once you have the falling direction planned out, you should climb up the tree and tie two long ropes near the top. Anchor them on the opposite side of the one that you want it to fall towards. This will allow you to adust the direction the tree is being lowered in, just in case it starts leaning towards anything it could destroy.

Now that you’ve taken all the necessary precautions, you are ready to begin chopping. If you plan on using a manually operated saw or axe, please step back and consider how insane that is. Chopping down a tree by hand will take you forever, and will not even begin to be as accurate as using a chainsaw. If you don’t have a chainsaw, you shouldn’t even consider doing it without one. Ask around with your neighbors and see if anyone has one that you could borrow. If that doesn’t work, rent or buy one from your local home improvement store.

Before you start chopping away at the tree, you should wear proper eye and face protection in case any wood chips fly towards your eyes. I had a friend who blinded his right eye while cutting down a tree, so I hope all of my readers do not make the same mistake as he did. Whenever you operate a power tool, always be sure to wear proper protection for any exposed parts of your body. Or better to get n touch with companies like ArborLawnInc.com to do the job for you.

When making the cut, you do not want to just cut a straight line into the tree. It is best to cut a sideways “V” into the tree. This is because if you cut the straight line, the tree will end up rolling to one side or the other. If you cut in a “V”, the tree will be able to fall in the exact direction that you want it to fall. Occasionally it might be a few feet off due to human error during the cutting process, but if you have some strong friends pull on the ropes you tied, you can line it back up with the path you wanted it to take. The entire process shouldn’t take more than an hour.

Grinding stumps can be slightly more difficult. You have several choices; you can rent out a stump chipper that will completely destroy the visible section of the stump. Or you can spend countless hours digging it out. Digging out the stump is much more thorough, but takes forever. If you have kids this shouldn’t be a problem. Kids often find the thought of digging fun, and are excited to go outside and dig all day long with their friends. This was the method I used, and I had the entire stump out within a week. Keep in mind that my stump was about 1 foot in diameter, and digging probably won’t work for stumps much larger than that.