Jump to Navigation
Support This Station News Destination
  • Listen Live
  • On Air Now
  • On Air Schedule
  • Programs
  • Events
WRVO
Part of the NPR digital network
  • Regional News
  • Broadcast Schedule
    • Program Schedule
    • Tuned to Yesterday Schedule
  • Local Programming
    • Tuned to Yesterday
    • Campbell Conversations
    • Take Care
  • Podcasts
    • Financial Planning with J. Daniel Pluff
    • From the Soil with Sollecito
    • Sounds of CNY
  • Event Tickets
    • MemberCard Thank You Tour
    • Cruise
  • Support
    • Sustaining Program
    • Become an Underwriter
    • MemberCard
  • About Us
    • Programs
    • Transmitter Status
    • People
    • Employment
    • Internships
    • Announcements
    • Awards
    • Cruise with WRVO
    • Contact Us
    • Directions

Search form

Now Playing

Loading streams...

Connect with Us

Find us on FacebookFollow us on Twitter

Podcasts & RSS Feeds

Tom Swift
  • closeNews podcasts
  • Use iTunes
  • Use a different player
RSS
All Content
  • closeNews podcasts
  • Use iTunes
  • Use a different player
RSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds
Join Our Email List

Most Active Stories

  • New York's "local" beef, often not as local as you think
  • Remington Arms' owner breaks silence on state's gun laws
  • Proposed line would move natural gas from Binghamton to Syracuse
  • The WRVO MemberCard Thank You! Tour
  • Seven years of spinning turbines have brought windfall to Lewis County communities

Tagged: Tom Swift

5:54pm

Sat September 1, 2012
E-mail
Comments
Share
Tweet
Google+
-From The Soil with Sollecito

Woodsman Pare That Tree

By Michael S. Ameigh and Jim Sollecito
image of Jim Sollecito
  • Listen

Why is it that a bird can fly through a tree canopy repeatedly without so much as a ding to a wing but a golf ball will find a limb every time?  No answer here, but Jim has some great tips for pruning your trees to enhance their appearance.  Careful pruning will add elegance to your landscape for years to come.

Tags: 
Felco pruners
Tom Swift
pruning crabapple trees
Jim Sollecito
from the soil
Related Content: 
Spruce up your dormant landscaping
You Are how you Plant
Just Add Water
Global Warmups
Fall Planting
Bee Smart or Be Smarting
Fishy plant tonic makes all the difference
Build your landscape management skills
A talk with the Lawn Arranger
Trim Those Leggy Plants
Is your green space a lawn, or a yawn?
Make a View Space
Mulch More Than You Think
More About Mulch
Fertigation
Cool Cultivars
Lively Lilacs
Bloomerang Lilacs
Super Soil
Plant with Compost
Feed Flowering Bulbs
Read The Label
Garden Gloves
Plastic is Forever
Slugging It Out
Light and Shade
Water Those Plants
Oh Deer
Rachel's Coffee Filter Fixes
Bee Smart or Be Smarting
Proper Planting Tips
Fall Planting
Everbrowns
Global Warmups
Just Add Water
Dog Days
Bling Bling Plants
You Are how you Plant
Trees are Tribal

WRVO Public Media

American Public Media BBC PRI NPR CBC Radio Netherlands Worldwide Deutsche Welle

Regional News

  • Agriculture
  • Candidates in Depth
  • From The Soil with Sollecito
  • School Budget Series
  • Transmitter Status
  • Tuned To Yesterday
  • Arts
  • Nature of Things
  • Business
  • Community Forums
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Entertainment
  • Environment
  • Financial Planning
  • Health
  • Home Running
  • Performing Arts and Culture
  • Politics
  • Politics and Government
  • Recreation
  • Regional Coverage
  • Religion
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Station Announcement
  • Technology
  • The Upstate Economy

Program Schedules

  • WRVO-1
  • WRVO-2
  • WRVO-3
  • Programs

Listen Live

  • WRVO Flash Player
  • Windows Media
  • WRVO-1: News Magazine
  • WRVO-2: Public Radio Remix
  • WRVO-3: International
  • Streaming MP3
  • WRVO-1: News Magazine
  • WRVO-2: Public Radio Remix
  • WRVO-3: International
WRVO on your mobile device
  • Help with online listening

Events Calendar

  • May
    23
    Community Events
    Free Informational Session on Hearing Health
    At Mimi's
  • May
    23
    Community Events
    Corning NY GlassFest
    At The Gaffer District
  • May
    23
    Lectures/Literary
    Sustainable Use of Renewable Energy: Green Infrastructure
    At SUNY-ESF Gateway Center - Space C
  • May
    23
    Community Events
    2300°: GlassFest Bead Extravaganza
    At The Coring Museum of Glass
  • May
    23
    Community Events
    Health Link Seminar. Obstructive Sleep Apnea
    At Oasis Learning Center
  • Contact Us
  • Directions and Map
  • People
  • News Awards
  • Employment
  • About Us
  • ©2013 WRVO Public Media