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Hey! I'm not dead, and I'm trying to get back into the habit of posting again, even though I never really have much news except what is going on in the garden/yard. Today I spent most of my outdoors time today trying to prune apple trees, removing large dead limbs. It's really late for that, but thanks to our very late rains everyone had to prune
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Hiring someone would be the easiest option- except there's 14 of them (I think?) I keep forgetting, and they're on a slope that's steep enough that it makes ladders difficult so things would be slow and extra expensive, and really more expensive than would be affordable. However, I think someone will have to be hired for a few things, there are branch questions on a few of the good trees that I'm not sure about, and I think someone who knows needs to look and tell me if the balance of the tree will be wrong if certain branches are removed (some of these trees have already started to lean, and a few have had branches split off because of weight and slope I think).
My old apple trees were easy to upkeep (they got yearly pruning, thinning and water) and never had any problems, but I think what has happened here is that they were neglected and it looks like maybe someone was doing major branch removal and not using sealant. I see old sealed marks, but then the ones which have turned into holes do not have any tell-tale sealant darkening. It's possible a fungus got in that way? These trees have problems I've never seen before, so I don't really know. I'm definitely learning things though I guess?
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