Although winter will never be my favourite time of year, there are bits of it I love. I like the time to get things in order, to plant trees and maintain the ones we already have here.
One of my favourite jobs is to prune the apple trees. It feels such a privilege to have been able to plant all these trees here and prune them every year.
This short video above is me pruning a Scotch Bridgett apple tree I planted here 12 years ago. I love how this tree has grown and how I've managed to shape it over the years to be the right sort of shape for hand picking the fruit.
Give it a watch and let me know what you think.
This is a job I still need to do but because we still have two feet of snow, I'm waiting for a bit before starting.
ReplyDeleteThe snow would certainly put me off being outside doing this job! This felt cold enough but I think heating in the workshop has made me a wimp.
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