How do I prune a 20 year old overgrown Cob Nut Tree
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wild edgesThe north west of south east WalesPosts: 8,852
When you say prune what do you want to achieve with the tree at the moment? You can coppice the tree right down to just above ground level but that might not give the result you're after. Coppicing gives quite bushy regrowth and is useful for creating stems for bean poles and increasing the nut harvest but if you want to keep it as a tree then it needs a different approach.
I recently reduced the size of my cob nut tree, but not so much as to affect the nut crop. The squirrels get all the nuts before I do of course.. I find them buried all over the place!
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wild edgesThe north west of south east WalesPosts: 8,852
edited September 2022
The squirrels have been strangely absent here this Autumn and the hazels have had a really heavy crop. I got all these from one tree and I left quite a few for the wildlife
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