Trimming Fruit Trees and Grape Vines

The other day I saw a great post from @beatitudes8 and @papa-pepper on pruning fruit trees. I don't want to duplicate the information I just want to share a few pictures of our trees before and after.

I am doing this post because the first time I pruned are trees back harshly I thought for sure they would die and produce nothing. This was not the case in fact they grew wonderful and put on an abundance of fruit.

I trimmed a total of 9 trees and removed 5 wheel barrow loads of wood. This picture shows how all pieces were cut to fit in the wheel barrow.

The grape we are trimming today is a Bronze muscadine. This vine has been growing for 3 years and produced 5 lbs of grapes for us to eat last year.

This is the pile of vines from the trimming.

After the hair trimming...

And I found 2 little gifts while trimming, not the lambs. :)

These 2 vines rooted which will fit nicely in the vineyard since the deer killed 2 last year. Amazing how the Lord provides!

Each year we have issues with a worm or bug getting a hole in our fruit. We currently only use soap and a little oil in a sprayer to offer some protection for the fruit. I would really like to hear from others what they are using to protect their fruit from worms/bugs. After all we want healthy fruit but each year we only get 1/2 or less of a harvest due to the bugs/worms. Any info would be greatly appreciated in this area!!