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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

8CD182E14CBB9C3-10E4-12E5@webmail-d064.sysops.aol.com" type="cite">That said, summer pruning is now not in huge disfavor, as was the case decades go, but that one may prune the 1/4-1/3 max amount, over the course of the year, dormant season, still somewhat favored.  I spread mine over the course of the year, personally.

Thanks, Bill. And thanks to everyone else who commented, too. I think this sort of discussion is interesting, even if there isn't a consensus. And heck, maybe I'll even learn something!

:-)

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

http://garthright.blogspot.com/

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Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a "gift", was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before - one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune and blame only ourselves for our fate. - Barbara Ehrenreich