But buying power equipment just to grind a few cart loads of hedge and tree prunings each year may not be economical.
Shrub and tree prunings are difficult materials to compost unless you have a shredder/chipper.
And Nature herself provides all the checks and prunings required, in her tests of teething, of measles, and the other diseases and trials of infancy and childhood.
Another general precaution that will be taken by every planter who aims to maintain the best condition in his orchard is the gathering and burning of all prunings or trimmings from the orchard, whether they are diseased or not.
And one unaccustomed to come to church gave the fruit and prunings of fifteen rows in his vineyard.
The less skilled man cuts tendrils and severs the cut canes from each other so that the prunings may be moved from the vineyard without trouble by the "stripper.
The prunings cling to the trellis with considerable tenacity and must be pulled loose with a peculiar jerk, learned by practice, and placed on the ground between the rows.
Since the disease is carried through the winter in mummied fruits and diseased wood, the desirability of destroying these mummied grapes and the leaves and prunings of infected vines as soon as possible is apparent.
At the time of these summer prunings the young growing shoots should be thinned out enough to prevent any choking of the tree top and should be headed in wherever it is necessary to retain the symmetrical growth.
In order to carry out the idea thus outlined, an early spring pruning is given while the trees are dormant, and several successiveprunings are administered during the growing season.
The summer prunings may be pricked into sandy loam in a shady part, where they will root and become useful stock for the following spring, or strong examples may be pulled to pieces of the desired size.
Vineyard prunings are more promising because more easily and quickly reduced by decay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prunings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
