pruning
Garden Pruning Basics
The 2 basic pruning cuts for pruning any plant. www.douggreensgarden.com the two basic cuts are a heading cut, and thinning cut. The thinning cut removes any branch or shoot from where it's darted as a bud. so if you track the shoot or branch back to where it started, and cut there, this is a thinning cut and removes all of the branch. If done properly, the branch tends not to resprout. For other information, go to www.douggreensgarden.com A heading cut cuts a sprout or branch at any place along its growth, as long as it is not back at the bod where it started. Leaving the shoot or branch behind the cut promotes new growth from dormant buds. When these buds grow the plant thickens up. So to open up the plants, you use thinning cut. To thicken up the plants, you use a heading cut. This is the same rule for almost all plants in the garden. There are very very few plants that this does not apply to. So no matter whether you're talking about rasp berries, hydrangea, fruit trees, tomatoes, garden shrubs or annual flowers these two cuts are the ones you'll use. The last thing I want to add here is that plants are resilient, they'll take a significant amount of abuse and regrow. This means, do not be afraid to prune and experiment with pruning. If you want to experiment, the easiest plants to work with and learn from our annual geraniums. You can practice the two cuts and see the results within a week or two.
How to Prune and Trim a Tree - Do It Yourself
Lowe's home improvement expert, Mike Kraft, shares tips on pruning and trimming trees in your yard. Also learn what season to prune and how to remove dead tree limbs. To find more outdoor home project ideas, visit www.Lowes.com
How To Prune A Fruit Tree
Ed Laivo and Tom Spellman of Dave Wilson Nursery give you advise on how to prune fruit trees.
How To Prune Tomatoes
7/11/2008Growing Wisdom:Pruning Tomatoes Pruning tomatoes is one of the easiest and most beneficial things you can do to increase fruit size and help lessen the chances of disease. First, let's talk about which tomatoes to prune. Indeterminate (climbing) tomatoes should be staked, trellised, or caged, and pruned for best results. Determinate (bush) tomatoes do not need pruning and may be grown with or without support. Now what is the difference? The fruit of determinate tomatoes ripens within a concentrated time period. The fruit of indeterminate tomato varieties ripens over an extended period, and will continue to grow until they are affected by the first hard frost. For example, you may have purchased a container tomato plant for your patio. Typically, the tomatoes commercially available in containers are determinate and do not need pruning. However, you still should give it some support. On the other hand, the cherry tomato plant in your garden is most likely an indeterminate plant – if you don't keep it in check, it might take over! The basic method of pruning is to remove the suckers from the leaf axils of the tomato plant. Click here to see a video on how to prune tomatoes. The sucker is the growth that comes up between the main leader of the plant and the side branches. There are a couple of schools of thought on removing suckers. Some people remove all the suckers. Some leave the first sucker after the first set of flowers. This gives you two leaders. I do the ...
Pruning Roses for Maximum Display
How to prune roses for maximum blooms, perfect for a public rose garden, or even in your back yard.
Fruitwise guide to pruning apple trees-part 1
Stephen Hayes of Fruitwise Heritage Apples offers a series of video tutorials on pruning of apple trees. I do not claim to be an 'expert', I have learned about pruning from reading every book I could find and studying the trees themselves. See my web site on www.fruitwise.net for more about our orchard and apples. The pruning method I use is a mixture of renewal and a version of the Lorette style and a few other styles, but above all is based on an understanding of how the trees grow and perform from year to year which I have gained from pruning my trees, winter and summer, since we planted our first orchard of 250 fruit trees in 1992. These are not professional videos, and I had a sniffly cold, I hope they are of some use-if not, show me how to do it better! Kind regards to all-and remember, the biggest mistake people make about apple trees is not to grow one.
Gardening Tips : Tips on Pruning Shrubs
When pruning shrubs, avoid pruning when the flowers are in bloom, cut the branches down to the leaf line, and get rid of any dead or scraggly branches. Avoid pruning down shrubs more than one third with advice from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening.
Spur Pruning Grapevines.mp4
This is an instructional video on the process in spur-pruning grapevines. The vines used are trained to a bilateral cordon guyot (VSP). This is provided through Oregon State University Extension by Dr. Patty Skinkis, Viticulture Extension Specialist.
Peach tree pruning tips
This is a video on how to prune peach trees.The best ways on getting the best fruit wood and explain on what you have to do in the simplest ways. If people want more information check out my forum orchardexperience.proboards.com
Pruning Evergreen Trees
This week we look at pruning evergreens. Take a look at www.growingwisdom.com for more.
Apple Pruning
Pruning in the apple orchard with Bill, Ellen and Scotty. www.greengardenservice.net Bill give pointers on keeping your trees compact and fruitful.
How to Prune a Tree
Watch this video with Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl and arborist, Gary Overton and learn how to prune your trees. Tree pruning is very important for the long term health of your tree. But you have to do it the right way or you can damage the tree. For more gardening videos visit www.Urbansustainableliving.com
Apricot Pruning
Bill prunes apricots at California Nursery Park with LEAF. www.greengardenservice.net
A Guide to Lavender : Pruning Lavender
Pruning a lavender plant promotes the growth of the root system down below. Prune a lavender plant with tips from a lavender farmer in this free video on growing herbs. Expert: Sarah Bader Contact: www.lavenderatstonegate.com Bio: Sarah Bader started Lavender at Stonegate, a lavender farm, with a love of lavender and a lot of determination. Filmmaker: Demand Media
Introduction To Rose Pruning
This short video explains the two primary ways bush roses grow so you can identify them in your garden. It's the introduction to the two separate videos on how to prune each type.
UMass Fruit Advisor -- Easy Peach Pruning
UMass Fruit Advisor -- Easy Peach Pruning: 4 steps to easy peach pruning, young peach trees, open-center peach. Demonstrated by Wes Autio, Professor of Pomology, UMass Amherst, at the UMass Cold Spring Orchard, Belchertown, MA, January 2008.
how to prune a young blueberry
Featuring Troy Swift, this is the first installment of our Plant Jam Video Series. Stay tuned for more, and feel free to visit us at usefulplants.org
how to prune a young apple tree
Permaculture designer Chuck Marsh will teach you how to prune your baby apple tree. Feel free to visit us at usefulplants.org
Grape Pruning
To spur prune or to cane prune, that is the question. Master Gardener Chuck Ingels has answers.
Pruning & Controlling a Climbing Rose
Pruning climbing roses can sometimes be intimidating. It's not. Nor is controlling it all season long to keep it tidy. This video shows you some simple techniques to get the most out of your climbing roses while keeping them under control.
Palm Tree Pruning.mov
Dr. Doug Caldwell from the University of Florida in Collier County tackles the hot topic Hurricane Pruning Palm Trees -- a common practice that is supposed to protect your palms during the Hurricane Season. With the help of Mark Chin, a Certified Arborist, they explain the important relationship of palm fronds to the health and safety of the tree and demonstrate the correct way to prune your palms. Movie created by 2 Collier County Master Gardeners.
Gardening Tips : How to Prune a Lilac Bush
When pruning lilac bushes, make sure to trim back the deadwood after the plant is done blooming. Prune a lilac bush with tips from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening. Expert: Yolanda Vanveen Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third-generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner
How to Prune Juniper Bonsai
Bonsai tree pruning, care, and maintenance. Maintenance pruning on a 25 year old San Jose Juniper bonsai tree, potted in a Tokoname bonsai pot, trimming foliage pads, fine shaping of an old bonsai. More at www.kuromatsubonsai.com More on Juniper bonsai at http
Bob Talks Tomatoes: Pruning, Care and Variety
Master Gardener Bob Orazi demonstrates how he cares for the tomato plants in his garden. Blossom-End Rot This physiologic disorder results from a lack of calcium in enlarging fruits. The fruit tissue disintegrates on the blossom or bottom end of the fruit leaving dark brown lesions that are sunken and leathery. During periods of rapid plant growth calcium is taken up and deposited in the expanding leaves. If there is insufficient calcium in the soil or if the plant cant take up calcium due to lack of water, the fruits will begin to show symptoms. Affected fruits should be immediately pulled and discarded because they use up nutrients and water. Plants tend to grow out of the problem. Calcium chloride may be sprayed on affected plants but this will not reverse existing damage. You can reduce blossom-end rot by: • Using calcitic or dolomitic lime in the fall to maintain a proper pH (6.3-6.8) • Mixing in a handful of ground limestone with the soil from each planting hole in the spring • Mulching your plants to conserve soil moisture • Avoiding high nitrogen fertilizers • Deep, regular watering; a mature, fruiting plant requires 1- 2 gals. of water twice a week during dry periods. For more information on caring for tomato plants, check out the IPM (Integrated Pest Management) Fact Sheet on Tomatoes: hgic.umd.edu Thisvideo is brought to you by the Home and Garden Information Center, part of University of Maryland Extension. Learn about our Grow It Eat It campaign, which ...
How Do I Prune Raspberries?
University of Maine Cooperative Extension talks about time of year and techniques for pruning your raspberries.
Pruning Plants: Petunias
How to Prune Petunias with more info on pruning at www.douggreensgarden.com from garden author Doug Green Pruning plants such as petunias is a simple chore if you understand the nature of both pruning and petunias. The objective is to create a heading cut that stops a branch of the petunia from growing and forces the plant to become bushier - thus producing more flowers This video at www.douggreensgarden.com shows the two basic pruning cuts you use on all plants, from container plants to trees and shrubs such as hydrangea. This page has info on pruning tomatoes as well. Once you understand the effect pruning has on a plant, then you get to look at individual plants. The problem associated with petunias is those darn big flowers. :-) People often think when they remove the spent flower, they are pruning the plant. This is not the case, removing spent flowers is called deadheading and not pruning. To make a heading cut on a petunia, it is necessary to avoid the flower and big leaves but look at the very end of the shoot for the growing tip (the flower stem is behind this). Leave the flowe or bud alone and carefullly pinch out the growing leaves just ahead of the flower stem. Removing the growing tip will force new growth to come from further down the stem and the more new growth - the more flowers. This kind of pruning is quite common in many garden plants, the difference is that you have to look quite closely at the petunia to differentiate between the flower and the ...
Pruning Mature Pear Trees
Gary Heilig, Horticulture Educator for MSU Extension in Ingham County demonstrates how to prune a mature pear trees to reduce its size.
How to Prune Fruit Trees
Instructions for pruning a young fruit tree. Produced by Peaceful Valley & GrowOrganic.com where we encourage natural and organic gardening solutions. www.groworganic.com For more info, see our blog post "Fruit tree pruning -- where to go for research-based advice" intheloop.groworganic.com
Tomato Growing Secrets: Pruning Tomatoes
How to prune and train tomatoes up a string from www.beginner-gardening.com and award winning garden author Doug Green. There are several important things to understand about pruning tomatoes, the first is that they way a significant amount when fully loaded and the tomatoes are ripening. Secondly, when pruning them up a string it is important to remove the suckers and only allow a single stem to grow up each string. I used to grow tomatoes commercially and this system works perfectly for both training the tomato all season and cleaning it up quickly in the fall. Beginners sometimes ask what you attached the tomato to the string with? The answer is nothing. If you bend the tomato around the string a complete revolution every 6 to 8 inches, you will find the tomato will stick quite nicely all by itself by friction. You can see this in the video. So feeding and watering tomato are critical steps to success but so is the way you train and prune it. The nice thing about a tomato is it grows so quickly that if you do manage to take out the wrong bits from the wrong piece of the wrong direction, it will regrow and give you a second or third chance. I prune and thin my tomatoes in this way because pruning to a single stem, will give me more tomatoes per square-foot than if I let them flop on the ground. Pruning tomatoes is easy once you get the hang of it. You can see other videos at http
Prune this: Pruning a "Corn Plant" Dracaena Massangeana
Prune this episode #2: Kathryn demonstrates how to prune a common house plant known as Dracaena Massangeana or the Corn Plant
How to Trim Shrubs and Prune Hedges - Do It Yourself
Lowe's home improvement expert, Mike Kraft, shares the proper techniques for trimming shrubs and pruning hedges in your yard. For more helpful tips and videos, visit www.Lowes.com
Pruning Crapemyrtles
A common and devastating mistake made while pruning crapemyrtles is the practice of "topping" off the beautiful plant. Dr. Jim Robbins shows the proper techniques for pruning your landscape crapemyrtle.
How to Prune Crape Myrtles - MSU Extension Service
Consumer Horticulture Specialist Dr. Lelia Kelly - Mississippi State University Extension Service talks about pruning crape myrtles.
Mango Pruning-- Tipping
Senior Curator of Tropical Fruit Dr. Richard J. Campbell explains how to prune mango trees using tipping.
Fruitwise guide to apple tree pruning-sawing large branch
Here is some advice about sawing out a large branch which is diseased with canker.
Pruning Boxwoods
February is the best time to prune boxwoods, but selective cuts can be made year round.
Summer pruning Raspberries
A garden class room in summer pruning ever bearing raspberries with Bill Merrill from & Scotty. www.greengardenservice.net
Fruitwise guide to pruning apple trees part 2
Second in a series of tutorials from the Fruitwise orchard in Hampshire, England. These tutorials are fairly rough and ready, please comment and make suggestions, I will try to add more information. It's January now, I hope to also look at fruit thinning in May and summer pruning and keep a sort of online orchard diary through the season so you can se how the trees I pruned for these videos do from now until harvest in autumn 2008. Story of our orchard is on www.fruitwise.net will take you to the blog, click on url for menu from there.
Summer Apple Tree Pruning
Michigan State University Extension horticulture educator Bob Tritten shows how to improve the quantity and quality of your fruit baring apple trees through summer pruning.
pruning plums
A look at pruning of some Damson plums, variety Merryweather, on the 1st of May. Principles are similar to apples, remove overcrowded, dead and crossing wood and don't fiddle about too much with the rest. Avoid cutting off this years baby plums if you can-for example, if there are 2 branches too close together and you have to remove one, take the one with the least fruitlets on it, obviously- but harden your heart and remove wood that needs to come off even if it is carrying baby plums-if you had pruned those branches in winter you still would have lost those potential plums, just not seen them? Too many plums can break branches-i know, I;ve seen it even after I knew better. easy mistake to make, failing to thin plums hard enough in a heavy crop year. You prune plums in spring as this reduces disease problems.
Pruning Grapevines
UNL Extension Technologist Vaughn Hammond shows us the proper techniques and tips for maximum fruit production.
Grape Vine Pruning in Late Winter and Early Spring - Gurney's Video
gurneys.com - In this video, Felix from Gurney's discusses how to care for your Grape Vines. How to prune grape vines, how to train grape vines, and other helpful gardening information about grape vine plants.
Cane Pruning Grapevines.mp4
This is an instructional video explaining the process of cane pruning grapevines. This video is provided by Oregon State University Viticulture Extension by Dr. Patty Skinkis, Viticulture Extension Specialist.
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