Formative Pruning Young Fruit Trees: Open-Center vs. Central-Leader
Learn formative pruning techniques for young fruit trees (years 1-3). Compare open-center vs. central-leader systems to build a strong, productive orchard in USDA zone 6.
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Articles on pruning address fruit trees, hedgerow shrubs, coppice stools, and climbing plants — covering timing by species, correct cut angles, tool hygiene, and how pruning decisions shape long-term yield and structure. Readers also find guides on using the resulting biomass as mulch, chop-and-drop material, or cut material for propagation.
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Syntropic farming: growing a food forest the way nature builds one
Syntropic farming, developed by Ernst Gotsch, farms with natural succession and stratification, using heavy pruning instead of fertilizer. Here is how it works.
Pruning leucaena for biomass — Götsch’s chop-and-drop, applied
Leucaena is not a crop you harvest. It is a pump you operate. Leucaena leucocephala — ipil-ipil , river tamarind — exists in a syntropic system to convert sunlight and atmospheric nitrogen into bio…