Pruning, Training, and Tidying

✍ Scribed by Flowerdew, Bob

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pruning and training: why? -- Reducing the need for pruning -- Pruning in theory -- Pruning is what exactly? -- Pruning and training in practice -- Where the sap goes the wood follows -- Pruning for training -- Supports -- The cast list -- pruning by plant type -- Remedial work with most ornamentals -- Pruning roses -- Hedges and topiary -- Productive garden pruning -- Tidying by pruning -- What to do with the waste.;Provides advice on organic-gardening techniques that involve precise pruning and training plants, particularly fruit trees, so that they can take the best advantage of sunlight, and suggests ways to deal with specific plants and flowers.

✦ Table of Contents

Pruning and training: why? --
Reducing the need for pruning --
Pruning in theory --
Pruning is what exactly? --
Pruning and training in practice --
Where the sap goes the wood follows --
Pruning for training --
Supports --
The cast list --
pruning by plant type --
Remedial work with most ornamentals --
Pruning roses --
Hedges and topiary --
Productive garden pruning --
Tidying by pruning --
What to do with the waste.

✦ Subjects

Plants--Training;Pruning;Plants -- Training