FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Shawn Banks
Extension Agent, Consumer Horticulture
NC Cooperative Extension Service
919-989-5380 Fax: 919-934-2698

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Summer Training and Pruning of Fruit Trees

June 25, 2009 at 6:30pm, there will be a free workshop held at the Central Crops Research Station just outside of Clayton. The workshop will focus on summer pruning techniques to reduce winter pruning, training limbs to grow at the proper angle and direction, taking soil and tissue samples to be tested, and how to interpret the results.

Mike Parker, Tree Fruit Specialist from NC State University, will be there to show us proper techniques for maintaining fruit trees. Shawn Banks, Agriculture Agent-Consumer Horticulture, will discuss sampling soil and plant tissues for testing and interpreting the test results.

Please call 919-989-5380 to register for this workshop and to get directions to the Research Station.