Pruning & care

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Woodcut illustration for the pruning and care section
A saw finishing outside the branch collar: the one cut that separates pruning from wounding.

Crown work priced by the cut, timed by the season, and specified against the ANSI pruning types a good crew already uses.

Where to start

Pruning is priced by the type of cut, so name the cut before you compare quotes. When to prune trees covers timing and the diseases that make the season matter, and the tree pruning calendar lays it out month by month. The tree trimming cost calculator prices cleaning, raising, thinning and reduction separately, in the ANSI pruning vocabulary a good crew writes its quotes in. For a tree with a weak fork, read tree cabling and bracing before you agree to a reduction. Feeding is covered in deep root fertilization vs surface feeding, and the mulch and wood chip calculator sizes the mulch ring that usually does more for a tree than either.

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