“Maybe we should cut that broken branch off,” I said to my husband.
Our peach tree experiment had some serious problems.
The peaches had grown too big for the branches. The small burdened branches slumped to the breaking point, and the not-yet-ripe peaches were on the ground.
One branch had already broken and lay withering on the grass; its fruit shrunken little knots.
I remembered the words of our sister-in-law (orchard owner) saying a couple of months back, “You need to thin those peaches. Take some of them off. They will get too big and break your tree.”
We had not followed her expert advice.
The abundance of blooms was beautiful. In our mind, lots of bloom activity equaled lots of fruit. And we wanted lots of fruit.
Those beautiful blooms grew into beautiful fruit alright, but now our tree was in jeopardy of breaking apart.
We wanted lots of growth but knew absolutely nothing about the importance of pruning.
The Pruning Season
The natural things of life often are…
