- Allow for air flow in the canopy to ameliorate fungal diseases
- Keep the best positioned shoots to be next year's canes
- Keep the shoots in one plane
- Allow the optimum amount of sunlight access to developing inflorescence primordia to encourage fruitfulness next year
- Allow for the strongest growth to be closest to the graft union
My husband might say that the cleaning could still be a lot better. I enjoy this communing with the young vines. (Up close and personal). Yesterday, when I was sitting on the wheelable garden stool, what I thought was a bumblebee flew close to me. My initial reaction was to shoo it away, but when it came back, I noticed that the body shape was longer than a bumble bee and it flew like a hummingbird. It continued to hover around me so that I could get a good look at it, maybe twenty seconds or so. Later when I looked it up on the Internet, I learned that it was a hummingbird clearwing moth.
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