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Good morning. During the spring cutting of plants, trees and bushes in the garden, we can make a few mistakes. What? Cutting plants with the wrong tool. A tool that is not sharp, dirty and poorly adapted to specific plants. With a dirty tool, we easily transfer diseases and pests from plant to plant. With an unsharpened tool, we easily damage the tissue, bark of plants, causing wounds that are an invitation for pathogens and pests. It is better to reach for a wooden ball for cutting thicker and drier branches. When we cut dry branches, which have a diameter of more than 1.5 cm, with a separator, we cause our tool to break and dull. Timing of cutting, weather and temperature. Let's try not to cut plants when the air temperature is below 2 degrees below zero. Overcut branches at minus temperatures are very prone to frost damage. When cutting plants, choose a sunny and warm day. Thanks to this, wounds will dry faster after cutting. When we cut thick branches and branches, we cut only from the top. Such branches should be cut from the bottom first, and then from the top. Thanks to this, we will avoid breaking the branches. If the branch is long, it is worth shortening it a bit to weigh it down. While cutting, leave dry fragments of plants. They are worth getting rid of, because they are often the habitat of diseases and pests. When we cut damaged, damaged branches with various pathogens, we usually cut only a fragment, without paying attention whether there are no similar changes in the lower parts of this branch. There are no diseases. Infected branches should be carefully examined from the top to the very bottom of the plant, or sometimes the whole branch does not require cutting. When cutting branches, we cut too long. That is, we leave too long a fragment of the branch, which with time dries up and a hanger on the cap is created, as my dad calls it. We try to cut close to the bud, about half a centimeter. When a large wound occurs after cutting, we do not protect it with special ointments that will protect the plant from pathogens and pests. Sometimes when cutting, we cut the plant at the wrong time. That is, we will cut plants that bloom early in the spring, so we will get rid of their flower buds. Well, unless we want to cut the branches into a vase to redecorate our apartment. There is one simple rule. If we do not know how to cut a given plant, do not cut it. For example, when we are not sure what kind of rose we have in the garden, whether it repeats blooming and we do not know whether to shorten it more or less, let's wait until it blooms, so that we can find out what kind of variety it is. When we skip the spring cutting 2-3 seasons in a row, we forget that the plant should be cut shorter to rejuvenate it. And during such a cut, we forget about the cutting of the so-called wolves, i.e. growths that protrude from the pods when the plant has been vaccinated. Of course, they should be removed. When we cut the bud every year, constantly at the same height, so-called broomsticks are created. Unfortunately, I do not have such an example in the garden to present to you, but the point is that the twigs are strongly branched in one place and such branches should be cut. So we just cut the bud a little lower. Sometimes when we cut a plant, we follow generally available rules. For example, that we cut a given plant 30 cm from the ground. Without looking at its cut, how it grows in our garden, without thinking for a moment whether sometimes cutting it a little higher Remember that we cut plants for several reasons. First, we make sanitary cuts, i.e. we cut all damaged, dry, broken twigs. We also cut branches that grow in the middle of the crown, i.e. we light the tree, the bush, so that more air enters the plant, which to some extent protects them from fungal diseases. We cut plants to shape them, to give them some form. But we also cut mainly to stimulate them to grow. Cutting stimulates them to grow. In the coming days, I would like to present to you specific examples of cutting plants. What interests you more? Cutting large twigs, large trees, or maybe livewood, or maybe rejuvenating the bushes? Be sure to let me know in the comment. If you are planning new plantings this year in the garden, but you are not yet sure whether to plant pines or bushes, I encourage you to sow single-year plants. And what do I recommend? I invite you to watch this video. I will be grateful for the thumbs up under the video and remember to subscribe, of course with a bell. In the meantime, I wish you green, pleasant work in the garden and good weather. Regards!