By LEE REICH
For The Associated Press
June 20, 2009
So you planted trees this spring. Those trees' first years in the ground — and especially this very first year — are important to their future strength and beauty.
Pruning is one way to direct development of what will become their permanent limbs, and the best time for this pruning is while the trees are still small. Small cuts made on small trees leave correspondingly small wounds.
PROMOTE THE TOP DOG: Help your young tree to develop a sturdy trunk. For most trees,
this means allowing only a single stem to be the main axis. Let this stem be the most vertical, strongest one. Shorten, cut away or bend down any other stems competing for the role of top dog.
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