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Northern Nevada backyards and gardens: Crabapple pruning and training the 'suckers'
Today I started pruning out the water sprouts in my four crabapple trees. Some people might call these “suckers,” but suckers grow up from the bottom of the trunk and water sprouts grow in the upper parts of the tree. I have been training three of these …