Beginner Gardening: Let's See Your ARBORS and TRELLISES! Part 2, 0 by KaperC

KaperC wrote:
Gosh Mike, thanks, but they look pitiful right now - no blooms yet and they are all nekid! This is the only photo I have that sort of shows how they are set up - from 2 years ago. I was actually taking a picture of the pine trees.

DH put up the T supports, then strung wire for support to espalier the trees. The bird netting makes it a little hard to see what's going on. The idea was to make a bit of a fence to close the terrace in a little, but not completely block the rest of the garden. They are pretty well structured now and we're thinking of taking most of the wires out. We'll need the poles for the netting, though, or we will never have any apples, which we love.

Our problem is not knowing how to properly prune them, etc. Everything I read, though, says to just keep trying - as long as you don't chop them off, they'll recover. Someone on DG also said to bag the apples (with baggies!) so the critters don't get them. I might try that this year.