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Again, early spring, things are waking up. We want to prune roses. We are going to go over to a rose bush that is really pretty prickly. So I got the gloves, no laughing at the gloves, I know they are light blue.
Nonetheless, I am going to put the gloves on because I do not want to get destroyed here. This rose bush is fairly over grown, you really cannot mess this up with pruning but you want to do, you want to get right in there and this is why you have the gloves. And you want to look for branches, on the branch you going to see little tiny, tiny, tiny buds and those are the buds which you are going to shoot out later on in the spring.
I want to leave about three to four of those buds on the branch, so everything above that I am going to cut and you want to cut this on an angle just above the bud maybe about a quarter of an inch above that third bud. I am just going to cut that off. What I tend to do, again this are so prickly I tended to just pile them up in the same direction and then I can pick them up easier when I want to clean this up.
It is really tough to sort of mess this up. Make sure when you are using a tools you sharpen them, you lean them in between whatever you pruning. You know, we prune other things in the garden over the course to the past couples of days and in between pruning I want to clean this up because if one of these plants does have a disease I do not want to be spreading disease from plant to plant. You also want to keep this sharp so that I am not damaging the plant as I cut it. You want nice clean cuts with this.
We also no matter we wearing really good clothing you doing this, so I stand back I take a look at it and I want to be sure that I am not over pruning it and I am pruning for shape. I want air to kind a get in there so that the roses insusceptible to disease and I also wanted to look like a vase, so you want to it to kind to come up in a base shape. I am thinking about how I wanted this rose to look as it is going to look when it is blooming later on this summer.
There you have it. Again, gloves, knife sharp shears and a perfect time of the year, a nice sunny day here on early spring before things start to bloom out. Also, like we have done with some of the other perennials, I want to get a little bit of fertilizer and start working that fertilizer into the plant, into the rose bush so that it is already to grow and as soon as those roots start sucking up that soil it is going to have some nice nutrients in it.
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