Spring? It's still only February! But when you run an orchard, you have to tell seasons by the weather, not by the calendar, and Mother Nature has started giving us a few prime days for pruning our fruit trees. We just have to be ready to use them when they come. The window for pruning is fairly tight. The task is best done when the trees are dormant, in late fall through early spring. The temperature also has to be somewhere above "frigid," with no expectation of droppi