{"id":2613,"date":"2011-02-15T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2011-02-15T12:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T17:10:37","slug":"pruning-the-apple-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"Pruning the apple trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pruning-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pruning-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pruning-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken last week when the weather was colder. Most of the apple trees needed to be pruned. The trees don&#8217;t show up very well in the photo, but they&#8217;re there. I have 10 apple trees, semi-dwarf, planted in the fall of 2008. The tallest of these trees is now over eight feet. I&#8217;m hoping I might even get an apple or two this year.<\/p>\n<p>Two of my apple trees &#8212; both Arkansas blacks &#8212; died last summer. I replaced them with two two-year-old Arkansas black trees from the same nursery &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centuryfarmorchards.com\/\">Century Farm Orchards<\/a>. Because Arkansas blacks are my favorite apples, I requested full-size trees, rather than semi-dwarfs, for the new trees. In response, David Vernon, the orchardist, taught me something new. He said that I can make the semi-dwarf trees into full-size apple trees by planting the trees deeper, with the graft underground. Then, he says, roots will grow from the part of the tree above the graft onto the semi-dwarf root stock, thus producing a full-size tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo was taken last week when the weather was colder. Most of the apple trees needed to be pruned. The trees don&#8217;t show up very well in the photo, but they&#8217;re there. I have 10 apple trees, semi-dwarf, planted in the fall of 2008. The tallest of these trees is now over eight feet. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pruning the apple trees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}