Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Area residents attend tree pruning workshop

By TOM STANKARD

tstankard@yourdailyglobe

HURLEY - While snow fell outside, close to 50 area residents attended an apple tree pruning workshop led by Rebecca Krans Saturday morning at the Iron County Courthouse hosted by the 46th Parallel Planters and the Range Master Gardeners.

Krans, a Michigan State University Extension consumer horticulture educator, said tree pruning is a horticultural practice involving the selective removal of parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots.

She said the goal of pruning apple trees is to produce strong, healthy and attractive plants.

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