Fall is NOT the time to prune your plants. The temptation to prune and clean your plants at this time of year is never higher. However, it is a huge mistake to start trimming your fruit trees, shrubs, and other perennials in the Northern Hemisphere in the fall. With dormancy not fully set it, you run the risk of bud break and stimulating new growth dangerously too close to the upcoming first frosts.
Join me in this new video as I explain the dangers of fall pruning inn your Rosemary, Raspberries, Roses, Grapes, and Figs. The care you take for these perennial plants in your garden now and through the winter will pay dividends throughout the spring and into the next harvest! Specific pruning and care tips for each crop I grow on the farm are going to be added every week, so make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss anything!
Check out the videos below for more pruning tips, as well, I have included the US and Canada Amazon Affiliate link if you are thinking of doing any garden supply shopping this fall! Stay tuned until the end for that final Fig tree update from the Save A Dying Plant Video! (https://youtu.be/2BGVTBB8Cq8)
Pruning Rosemary: https://youtu.be/RvjB-MJJF-M
Pruning Strawberries: https://youtu.be/upqmvFFHLw0
Growing Raspberries From Cuttings: https://youtu.be/9gvbauuzY5s
Growing Rosemary From Cuttings: https://youtu.be/btPIog2iWq8
Canadian Amazon: https://amzn.to/2IL1jjy
USA Amazon: https://amzn.to/2VJwktE
I know we are all excited to get a jump start on next spring, but resist that temptation to prune and clean up those perennials until full dormancy sets in…or better yet, near spring bud break! How are your fall gardens doing and how are you guys preparing for both winter, and the coming spring!?
Nice. It's so cool to understand the why of the cycle of plants. Like strawberries, I wait until after a few cold snaos, so they know it's time to go dormant. Then I cover them for the winter with leaves and hay. I pruned my mulberry pretty hard in January last year…it survived and flourished but I think it was a bit early. Good job on the fig!
Biggest mistake I made one year was pruning one of my best lavender bushes about a week before the first frost day. Well, the plant started new growth and breaking buds. The coming winter just annihilated the bush and I ended up removing the whole thing the very next summer. Never again!
good vid man, forwarding this to the wife…. she gets a bit clipper-happy in the fall sometimes, didnt know a lot of this!
Good information once I get plants that need to be pruned.. thanks for the info.