The first thing grower Mark Russell does after planting a new orchard block is chop off all the nice feathered branches on the nursery trees delivered from Washington."Everything that looks like a branch gets removed and everything that looks like a thin dard remains," said Russell, who runs Two of ClubsOrchard in Niagara County, New York, with his wife, Jill MacKenzie. "We stub back, 4 to 6 inches from where the branches were, and then on the first hot day of spring we go out with a Maxcel spray on the trunks of the newly planted trees."
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