Things Needed
Tip
Do n’t use wound dressings on pruning cuts . A proper cut encourages the branch dog collar to close over the vulnerable share of a cut , and wound salad dressing keep the collar from closing properly . Clean pruning tools before and after use with a solution of 10 per centum household bleach or 70 percent rub alcoholic beverage and body of water to avoid spreading virus .
Warning
Do not stand on a run to trim trees . Always wear eye protection when dress .
newspaper birch tree is aboriginal to northern share of the U.S. and is known for its white , wrapped barque , used by aboriginal people for canoe cover and writing paper . Pruning this short - lived but attractive extremity of the birch fellowship is often a competition of timing with the bronze birch tree borer , an worm creditworthy for frustrated landscapers and thwarted homeowner from Maine to the wad of the Southwest . Paper birch with enough wet in the right location only occasionally require a bit of pruning .
Step 1
Thin before cut . White birch is a native species that reproduces prolifically in domain with open Dominicus and coolheaded , dampish dirt . In its natural habitat , it can go 80 year and grow 50 foot marvellous . A newspaper birch tree used for landscaping may live for 20 or more years if it is mulched and watered properly . tree diagram that get hot afternoon sun , are located under power wires or that grow in wet or bundle soils should be thinned to string attention to better - situated birches .
Step 2
Prune clean birch before May 1 or after August 1 to invalidate the " flight season " of the bronze birch rod borer . Females are draw to fresh tree combat injury , and wound binding do not repel insect . Although whitened birch is one of the birch least susceptible to this louse , pruning in fall or wintertime lessens vulnerability to this calamitous plague .
Step 3
crop to maintain shape , but never murder more than 25 percentage of the canopy of the tree . The lily-white birch is normally self - pruning , but branches should be removed to observe a single trunk . grave " Y " rent may break in a high nothingness ; one side of the Y should be sacrifice to avoid a rip .
Step 4
Clean off branches that cross or constitute bunch on bole when they are young ; they provide temptation for deer and other grazing animals . Branches start all along the tree trunk , sometimes in clusters of three or more , sometimes just a foot or two off the ground . In addition to providing leaves to browse on , these outgrowth teach animals to devolve to the tree in winter when they can kill the tree by stripping the protective bark all around the trunk .
Step 5
Prune dead branches pronto . Your livid birch will show you which offset postulate removal as it age . Always double - swing arm with a diam greater than 2 inches to debar damage to the " branch arrest , " the " wrinkled " bark around the juncture of the arm and trunk . Saw upward a few inches out from the collar , and then saw down next to the catch all the way through to transfer the leg .
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