Show number: 1411 Air Date: February 1st, 2001 Guest: Mark Olsen Topic: Proper Pruning Guest's e-mail: unavailable

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Topic Information

Mark Olson of Chipewa Farms Nursery and Greenhouse in Brandon, Mn. joined host Sue Gooch this week to discuss pruning. They talked about a wide variety of issues, including: when to prune, reasons for pruning, and helpful pruning techniques. Mark also showed some essential pruning tools.

Pruning Tools
pruning shears
folding saw
shaping shears - for bushes and shrubs
pruners - anvil and bypass
scissors

Books, brochures or handouts

Pruning Made Easy: A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and How to
Prune, from Flowers to Trees; by Lewis Hill; Storey's Gardening
Skills Illustrated; 1998

Easy, Practical Pruning: Techniques for Training Trees, Shrubs,
Vines, and Roses; by Barbara Ellis and Frances Tenenbaum; Taylor's
Weekend Gardening Guides, 1997

Ortho's All About Pruning; by Judy Lowe; 1999

Web site resources

Pruning sites from the Minnesota and North Dakota Extension services
www.extension.umn.edu/projects/yardandgarden/ygbriefs/h409pruning.html
www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG0628.html
www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/plantsci/trees/h1036w.htm

Pruning info from Kansas State Uninversity
www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/C550.PDF(Adobe Acrobat required to view file)

Search site featuring all University-based horticulture papers
140.254.84.201:8080/Phantom.acgi$search

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