{"id":8822,"date":"2018-10-09T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=8822"},"modified":"2018-10-09T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:59:29","slug":"pruning-the-apple-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/pruning-the-apple-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning the apple tree&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book said prune in fall or spring, and spring didn&#8217;t work. So this time I&#8217;m trimming in fall, and cutting it back until it looks like an Angry Orchard poster. <\/p>\n<p>It gave us 2 good apples. But it&#8217;s right near our Japanese maple, it&#8217;s an espaliered apple and should be kept under control, so we hope ultimately to limb-up the taller maple to let them co-exist. If not, it&#8217;s curtains for the apple, which is up against the fence, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>This is strenuous work, but I now have proper short loppers for the job and we are early enough to get the compost-trash to hold the branches I cut. <\/p>\n<p>Whew!<\/p>\n<p>Put the winter cover on the koi pond, and will shut down the pumps when it threatens freezing. We&#8217;re around the 36&#8217;s at night.<\/p>\n<p>Quiet today. No howling from Tanner, which has been nearly constant for 4 months. Maybe we&#8217;re going to win this. I hope the poor fellow is not depressed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book said prune in fall or spring, and spring didn&#8217;t work. So this time I&#8217;m trimming in fall, and cutting it back until it looks like an Angry Orchard poster. It gave us 2 good apples. But it&#8217;s right near our Japanese maple, it&#8217;s an espaliered apple and should be kept under control, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8823,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions\/8823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}