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By Kenner P. Love
Extension Agent, ANR
Crop and Soil Sciences
The following are April gardening tips supplied by the Rappahannock Extension Office.
• When apple trees are in full bloom, make a note on your calendar 150 days later to check for ripeness.
• Thin young fruits of apples, pears, and peaches to insure larger, healthier fruit. Thin within 25 days of the peak bloom, leaving four to six inches between fruit.
• In shaping young fruit trees, round hard-wood toothpicks or clothespins are very useful for the early and important job of limb spreading. Simply insert the toothpicks between the trunk and branch to force the matter to grow outward at about a 60 degree angle rather than upright.
• Improve the fruiting of your blueberries by removing unproductive wood that is diseased, dead, and broken. Also, remove old canes (five to six years old) that have begun to lose their vigor. Select six to eight of the most vigorous, upright-growing canes for
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