Lil Acre Farm: Pruning Prunes

Better late than never but here are some pictures from last weekend. We were plagued with colds but that didn't stop us from getting our fig tree and raspberries winterized.

We had to do some research in what to do for a fig tree, but in the end it seemed pretty simple so we gave it a shot, and just in the nick of time as we had our first snow this week and a nasty bit of ice rain this weekend.

Here is our fig all pruned and bustled up against the cold...

Our raspberries are in a bit of a sorry state. We don't know how old the patch is but it looked like it hadn't been pruned in years. We had to do some looking into what to do for the ever bearing variety we have but it too didn't seem too complicated.

Unfortunately it doesn't look like we have many shoots for early spring berries this year, but there should be lots come fall.

Unfortunately none of our fruit or nut trees look ready for pruning, although they too are all in desperate need for it. We might have to look into pruning them in the dead of winter. In the meantime we still have lots of leaves to take care of.

Leaves...