tree pruning | River's world…..

Have you ever visited a military cemetery and wondered why there are coins on top of the headstones? I get asked this a lot and thought I’d share.

I once saw a bratty little boy removing coins from graves in a veterans cemetery and while I don’t normally interfere with parents and their children…. you can bet I did that day.

Judging from the ad photo, I’d say that one.

I could do without a lot of things in this world, but never my books.

This is one of our large backyard apple trees. It’s a Granny Smith and has provided us with 20 years of spectacular autumn pies. But last year a massive wind storm ravaged the right side of her and we had to have an arborist in to give her a massive prune. He assured us all would be well but the harvest will be nonexistent in 2022. Sadly there wasn’t a single solitary bloom this spring …. which means a lot less pie this fall.

😫

Fall is tree pruning time and since our two mature apples and one small crabapple were in desperate need, we hired a professional arborist.

That’s him tackling the out of control crabapple.

And that’s him strapped onto a branch thinning out our (probably 45 year old) Macintosh.

There were branches everywhere by the end of the day.

Which made me glad clean up was included in the price.

Crabapple before, with a 2×4 holding up a broken section.

Crabapple after. It looks positively naked, but he assured us it would fill back in nicely next spring.

Mature apples before.

Mature apple trees after. The lighting is bad, but trust me… they were thinned out considerably and are probably breathing a sigh of relief as we speak.