Summer Fruit Tree Pruning

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Fruit trees require year-round care, and summer pruning is critical to their health. Learn best techniques for it in this workshop!

Fruit trees require year-round care, and summer pruning is critical to their health. Summer pruning allows air and light to reach fruits and lower branches, controls growth on vigorous trees, helps direct a tree's shape, and is an opportunity to remove dead, damaged, and dying wood. Our expert instructors will teach general pruning techniques, discuss the differences between summer and winter pruning, and lead a hands-on demonstration so you can learn which cuts will keep your trees healthy and productive.Following the workshop, you can put your newfound skills to use! Feel free to bring a lunch and eat with GFE staff and volunteers, and then at 1pm, join a group of fellow workshop participants and others from the GFE community to prune our orchard trees. Instructor Shilpa Thanawala is a San Carlos-based UC Master Gardener and experienced garden educator. She runs a leadership coaching practice and also serves as a grants manager for Planet Bee Foundation. Her small home garden contains more than 30 varieties of fruit trees, canes, and shrubs, a large herb garden, and a growing number of California native and pollinator plants. She has previously taught pruning to GFE's Get Up! groups as well as to the public, and has co-taught GFE fruit tree pruning workshops. No walk-up registration permitted for this course. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/o/garden-for-the-environment-924286027" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/o/garden-for-the-environment-924286027">Full garden workshop schedule</a><a href="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/workshops" title="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/workshops" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">What to bring to the workshop</a><a href="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/directions" title="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/directions" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Directions to the garden</a><a href="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/staff" title="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/staff" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">More about Jamie and Blas and our gardening Instructors</a>

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