Pruning your plants is an essential part of maintenance, as it gets rid of their dead and diseased growth. Careful pruning will ensure that they are great to look at from your Supremo Carina furniture, but if you are careless, you can do more harm than good.
This blog will provide some tips for perfect pruning.
Always use the correct tool
In most cases, the best tool for pruning will be secateurs – but there is more than one type. Experienced gardeners tend to favour bypass secateurs rather than anvil ones, because they enable them to make cleaner cuts. This reduces the odds of the plant developing an infection. If you are pruning very thick branches, a pruning saw will be best.
Keep your tools in good condition
This one is really just common sense, but secateurs with clean, sharp blades will do a better job. When you have finished pruning with them, use a cloth to clean off any dirt or sap. You should then put some oil on them, as this will help to stop rust from building up. In terms of sharpening the blades, the best way to do that is to use a fine file.
Cut from the correct angle and distance
The correct angle for pruning is 45-degrees, because that will ensure the top of each cut is slanting away from the plant bud. The ideal distance is slightly above each bud, but far enough away to avoid damage.
If you follow these three tips, you should be able to prune without problems!
