page 4 from little seeds
Page 4 From little seeds mighty trees grow, So get a chainsaw We are into autumn now and the fruit trees are in need of pruning, in the case of these trees a radical restructuring. “Hi mother, I am off into the garden to do some pruning” “What needs pruning? You have cut everything back to an inch of its life” “Well the apple trees need sorting out” “They were pollarded a couple of years ago so there fine” “No there not. They need pruning” I can be assertive when needed. I get out the house before mother recovers and goes into full scale rant, there was some more chuntering about men and ladders but I ignored it. More distructive gardening, I love it. yes the trees were pollarded but no one structured the trees as they grew. There were branches that needed taking right out. So up the ladder sawing off branches I went great fun. “ What are you doing” ahhh, heck I nearly fell off the ladder and a branch narrowly missed mother. “ Be carefu...