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How I Went About Pruning My Fruit Tree

Pruning fruit trees is important, because it lets the sun reach all parts of the tree. That means the tree will live longer and the fruits will be better. I was determined not to call someone to do this for me, so I armed myself with a ladder and my best sewing scissors. Thirty minutes and a pinched thumb later, I managed to get the ladder set up. I felt like Jack on the beanstalk when I climbed up that thing.

I realized I knew nothing about pruning fruit trees as soon as I reached the first limb, but I decided it couldn't be that difficult. I attempted to cut a smaller limb from my tree, and realized that the scissors wouldn't do the job. So I got my husband's chain saw.

I figured it had to be better than those scissors. I didn't realize how loud it would sound and it startled me. I flung it away on the ground and fell backwards off the ladder. Lucky for me that the grass is soft. I swore at the stupid chain saw, then we back up the ladder with it. I was prepared this time; I started again.

I was about to learn that chain saws are very sharp. I tried cutting that small limb again. The chain saw was aggressive and chomped into six and half limbs. My beautiful tree! About 1/4th of it was lying on the ground, and boy, was I really ticked off. But I wasn't about to give up, not even after one of the ravaged limbs struck my forehead and left a big scratch.

This time I got out the hedge shears and climbed up the tree itself. How hard can pruning fruit trees possibly be? As I was going up, I kicked over the ladder by accident.

I was absolutely fuming as I waited until my husband found me in that bleeping fruit tree. I was bleeding from the head and had dirt all over my butt. My husband was laughing as I made my way back towards the house. I gave one last withering look to the tree and muttered, "Until next year!"

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