How Correct Pruning Methods Can Make A HUGE Difference on Plant Health
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Pruning vs. cutting back. What are the differences and how do they effect plant health? In this episode we will talk about the differences and what they will do to increase overall plant health. Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
Perfect timing on this video as I spent my morning staring at my herb garden wondering when I should ✂️😬
For real, I want to make a bonsai morning glory, I have like 3 feet of vine, I think I'll cutback in a month, and them wait till after winter. Gotta experiment right?
Oregano is crazy prolific! Last year, I left a clump to bloom, and the little flowers were loaded with pollinators! So this year, after dividing that clump, I am growing some for us, which is trimmed, but I am leaving some to grow and bloom for pollinators.
So pruning is like a trimming and cutting back is like a legit hair cut. Got it. 😂 this video truly helps so so much! I’ve always sorta wondered what the heck people meant and if there was a difference!
Loved the video. It helped so much! There are so many terms in gardening that are used interchangeably but don’t mean the same thing. Thanks for clearing things up! Grow big or grow home!
This is one of THE most helpful videos I've ever watched! I wish you could've shown Rosemary, but as you said, it isn't a perennial in your zone. Down here in Georgia, Rosemary could be used as hedge bushes!!
Yea I'm in Georgia with a rosemary in my backyard as well. I feel like it stays green over winter, but I only started paying attention recently. I actually had to move it, and may have killed it.
Still one of the best gardening channels on UA-cam! Keep up the great work Luke!
I love your videos...keeping up my garden has been keeping me sane during this lock down
This video is so timely! I was looking at my poor thyme plants and was debating whether I needed to dig them out and start anew. I will give them a proper cut back and hope that pruning them for the rest of the summer will do the trick!
Great topic and helpful! Never really thought of big difference in pruning and cutting back . I have never cut back my herbs in the fall and now I know better. Will be doing more light pruning through the season to maintain now!
Luke , Quality is number one for me also! Thanks for the tips and keep up your green thumb! I sure appreciate everything you share.
I’ve recently discovered your channel and I think you’re BRILLIANT! Greetings from England 😊. I was wondering if you know about probiotic gardening? Keep up the good work!
In this video you say not cut back the basil heavily or the plant will be shocked and die. But I saw your basil pruning video from March this year and you cut a lot off, it looked like about 2/3 of the plants got cut off. Was that OK to do in that other video because those plants were exceptionally tall?
you are one of my 3 gardener's I watch and im so greatful for your furtalizer it has given me a green thumb lol. I literally killed every plant up until last year when I 1st started following you and 2 others after tons of videos. just wanted to say ty for putting in a way I can understand xocox
This is my new favorite channel. You have permanently changed my growing game forever brother. Thank you for what you do!
Are you planning on doing a drying how-to video? I'd love info on drying herbs. 😊
Here you go! This is a step-by step guild from my herbalism class.
1. Cut 1-10 sprigs of a plant,or 1-5 flowers.
2. Wash the herbs by soaking in water for ~10
minutes and then rinsing them under running
water.
3. Line the stems up, trim if you have to
4. Lay a 10-inch strand of twine on a flat surface and
put the herbs in the middle.
5. Wrap the one half of the twine tightly around once
and make a knot, do this again and again until you
get to the end.
6. Tie the free 5-or-so inches on a horizontal rod. I
usually use my closet rod but you can also use coat hangers, or just a piece of string.
7. Hang the herbs in a dry, warm, and dark place. This will prevent mold of new sprouts from forming.
8. Keep in mind that some dry leaves may fall down, you can hang a bag under it to prevent that if you really need to keep the space clean.
9. Check on them every now and then, smaller herbs will take 4-7 days to dry out, thicker ones can take up to two weeks, really big ones like roses can take up to three weeks.
And you’re done!
@@124tutt2 Thanks so much! I had tried to dry herbs last year and failed miserably. I dried them on my porch in the sun and for way too long....They got fried and were tasteless. I really appreciate your help and will be trying again, using your tips. :)
@@plumhydrangea lol I did that last summer too 🤭
There is also an old MIGardener video about drying herbs
He already has
Your video was the motivation I needed to corral the oregano. Hung lots to dry and made Vegan Oregano Pesto with the rest.
And I was so proud of all the growth on my thyme and sage!
If one cuts back a never-maintained herb plant now, should it be cut back again in the fall? It would be great if you could make a follow-up video in the fall on the topic of cutting-back, addressing such questions as how close to the frost date you do it and whether one can continue to harvest small amounts on cold-hardy herbs after the cut-back.
That's a LOT of questions for such easy plants to grow... Sometimes in Life, you just have to use your own brain to figure things out...
They're just herbs afterall -- that you can pretty much buy anywhere, anytime, if things go South... If you make a poor decision, then you learn from it and try something different next time.
Perfect video! I just pruned and dried a bunch of herbs yesterday! I never top off my thyme, I usually trim up the leaves that are laying down. But I didnt know that glowering messes with the flavor because my lemon thyme is SO fragrant and flavorful.
I was looking for this video 4 hours ago. Perfect timing
Answered A lot of questions😋 Wyogal
So glad you make this video Luke. My Greek Oregano plant needs Bush whacked. Out to the garden I go!
Tiny interjection: Those of you wishing to easily propogate some replacement perennial herbs, when I get these rogue shoots, I will tack them down with a bend of heavy gauge wire (or you can use a small rock/etc) bury them at least a half inch and tack down, you will then get a new rooted plant. I do this especially with my thyme and sage, since they tend to fizzle over the years.
Yo I heard herb sachet... I'm gonna need some cooking tutorials lol
My grandmother has leggy, old growth roses and raspberry+ blackberry bushes. Can you do u video on how to cut them back at the end of the season? Also, I need to know when to cut it. Is it too late for that now? We're in 7A
He did a raspberry video a while back. With raspberries, the trick is to wait till after the fruit ripens and then cut back (to the ground) anything that doesn't have a green central stem. They usually grow on second-year canes and tend to be green and flexible, instead of woody. With roses, on the other hand, cut everything back in the fall to one inch and cover the entire bed with leaves. In the spring give them some miracle grow for roses and they will bounce back and many even flower that same year. Do not ever feed plants going into winter.
@@wes9451 Thank you! I had the same question as Rena.
My brother had some berry vines on the ground.
First season they've bloomed flowers.
Stepped on a vine barefoot....
NEVER AGAIN.
Ouch!
Awesome job man. Love your channel. Lots of info. You're doing it right!
Thanks for the video pruning is the one and only thing about gardening I have problems with 😆 but this video really helped clear some things up for me thanks again Luke
Thanks for reminding me to cut back my thyme. Do you have a video on drying herbs? Thanks!
Loved this video! Big thumbs up for me. I am very interested in starting herb gardening. I planted parsley, cilantro, rosemary, thyme, oregano and sage this year. Video was very helpful so I know how to take care of my herbs. Thank you!
This is way off topic, but while I was watching this video I have been snacking on some of my Oregon Giant Snow Peas. So glad I bought the seeds from you. 👍 The plants are doing so well, despite the crazy back-and-forth weather here in the Ozarks.
My thyme is growing like crazy, if flowering or not. And I like the blossoms for tea, thyme is very benefitial for the lung.
I eat the blossoms straight off of my thyme plants! One of my sage plants has flowered this year and those blossoms are pretty tasty, too.
Great information, can really use it to fix some issues we've got with our herbs.
We're in the Pacific NW and for us parsley isn't an annual. We've had some get out of control, winter over and grow six feet tall.
They are biennial. When they go to seed the second year, collect and sprinkle seeds wherever it is you want them to grow again. Do this every year for 2 years and you'll have them reseeding themselves without any effort on your part, unless you want to have some control over where they decide to pop up.
that was very helpful. i inherited several perennial herbs and this will help me better care for them.
Excellent information on pruning
This is a great timed video for me!
I left my sage to overwinter, it got huge, and now its flowering. Thinking about harvesting and drying the flowers.
I have been really nervous about pruning thx for the great videos!
Thank you for this! I have a few perennial herbs and wasnt sure proper pruning. Very helpful
I so needed to know this!!!! I need to prune my parsley. Its huge.
Hey there , Great show with really good information I will use ...Thank you.
Hey man, i’ve been loving your content, would lover to see a video on trench composting. Love ya
There is a video he did already where he trenches a straw bale. Maybe you can find it. Might be helpful
@@daaven6452 yes it is core gardening
@Edisto Joe yes I agree and huguculture is the burying of logs or wood, while core gardening is burying straw bales
@Edisto Joe h
Thx for ur vids. The more I see the more I learn!
That thyme gave me such ocd seeing that weed in there u don’t know how bad I wanted you to pick it out 😝 great tips love your channel
Thank you! I really appreciate how informative and useful your videos are. I've learned a lot from you.
Luke pull that weed in the thyme! I believe it’s a dandelion! Can’t stand it!!!🤣
Dandelion is good supplements. Luke talked about that before.
Many gardeners eat the whole plant of the dandelion; from the root to the leaves and the blossom. It is good, especially in the spring. And it is free nutrients.
Looked like it was time to harvest all that dandelion goodness then
HEY! Dandelions are edible pollinators and one of the most underestimated garden buddies.
@@M377ow I don't care. Kill those suckers!
This video was so helpful. I have a thyme plant that looks like yours. Now I know what to do to avoid the woody stems. Thank you
So will you cut back the large oregano plant or continue to prune through growing season and cut back in Fall? Asking for a friend. 😉
So glad you focused on herbs, mine are out of control. Now I know how to manage them ~ thanks!
I learned bunches!
Thanks Luke, very useful information. I have wanted to know how to maintain herbs, much appreciated.
So here is where I should ask this question then...how do you top peppers then, trim back black berries etc? since I am blind I can’t see how much(quantifiable amount()) to trim back or the angle of cutting/trimming/topping plants. Any step by step on this would be awesome. O just incase to clarify quantifiable amount: ex: if I have a leaf from the tip to the cutting point, what is the distance? On a black berry same thing from the tip/top of a vine how much should I should cut back on average for this process? Thanks in advance
Great video, Luke. Could you do a video on maintaining blackberry plants, please? I planted a blackberry last summer and it's going to fruit this year. So excited as I've never grown a blackberry plant before. Thank you for considering! 😊
Hey everyone, peace, love and garden!
How Americans say Oregano always makes me chuckle
This is just what I needed. Thank you.
Love the channel, you are so helpful.
Hey Mlgardner, can you do a video on pruning and training indeterminate tomatoes?
I think he did one of those last week.
Thank you! Just today I was eying my oregano, wondering if it was time to prune it a bit. It is!
Perfect timing once again! Had my pruning session today haha
My sage has such beautiful flowers. All my kids love them
What's it called if you trim between 20 and 60 percent?
I think a pandemic
Too soon?
Awesome work keep up the amazing work I learn so much from watching you 😊
Luke. Do you have any videos on how to prune blackberries, raspberries and Boysenberries?
Very useful. Thanks Luke. So I did the right thing to my blackberry last fall, but wrong with my basil. Now I know!
Thank you I needed this info 🙏👍✌
I see this as either cutting my hair to eliminate split ends and for more heathy growth, or just letting it grow longer.
Thank you Luke just the information I needed as I have an out of control Thyme plant, you just confirmed I need to go back in an prune it even more-:). Getting ready to dry...dry and dry lots of thyme😃👍🏼
I just love your videos! Thank you for making such informative well done videos:)
hahahah! I just watched your video on pruning from back in 2016! Great addition
Great video! I do want to ask a question about the thyme plant. I have it planted in three places. One of them, because I planted it before has gotten much bigger. How much do I really want to cut off? I want it to continue to grow before it flowers.
If my basil is fairly new can I clip a few leaves to use or should I wait for it to be a bit more established?
I have this.same question
You can cut basil whenever you see new growth. When new leaves sprouting at the nodes, you can cut everything above the new growth. Basil will keep growing as long as it's warm enough, and you don't let it complete it's flowering cycle. For example, you have a 6 inch plant that is putting out new growth an inch from the bottom. Well, you can clip off the top 5 inches and in a few days that new growth will be full leaves that are again putting out new growth. You can take your clippings and put them in a cup and water and they will root in a few days if kept warm. Most herbs can and should be pruned heavily.
@@SoCalKevin thank you!!
So let me get this straight. Perennial means it will survive winter and come back in spring without the need to replant?
Thank you for explaining the difference
Love your channel and all of the great content you put out. I never knew until recently (today) you could propagate fruit trees and bushes. I'm very interested in trying it. Is now a good time to try? If so when is a good time to plant after propagating? I'm planning on trying apple, pear and blueberry.
I need to cut back my chilli plants at the end of the season and I'm nervous. Never done it before so hopefully it goes okay.
Thanks Luke
I just planted sage and thyme in between my tomatoes in peppers in the same bed and oh my gosh! I had no idea the sage and thyme could get that big 😂. Good luck to me?
I'm glad I caught this.
I wondered why my thyme is really Woody! Now I’m going to give it a good haircut!
Very informative!
Why have you left the woody growth on?
Wouldnt it be best for air flow (if necessary) & growth to remove those?
When would you cut it back? Winter / summer / autumn / spring? Do you avoid cutting during certain times in the day? Or if one is expecting rain or frost? I have cilantro and basil that have gone to seed. Wondering if I should start with new plants or just cut back. Thanks
Once they go to seed the flavor is either gone or can go bitter. Either start new plants or take clipping and stick them in water they form
New roots then plant.
I maintain the cooking herbs close to the kitchen , but have a huge thyme in the garden for decoration / fragrance and polinators. I want the latter to flower, so should I skip cutting back all together, or should I cut back alternating segments ?
Thank you for sharing ❤️💗❤️💖🤗
The oregano leaves can help season your pizza sauce along with your basil plants you started....
I need to trim back my marjoram...
So helpful. Thank you!!
Can you do a “store bought” herb version, please? I night some basil and though it’s not dead, it is not sprouting as much as I thought it would by now. I cut it back and it grew maybe about 4 leaves.
He mentions that cutting back basil kills it. It's an annual so you should only prune it (aka harvest the leaves).
You can prune basal back to just above the last leaves, but make sure there are 2 tiny leaflets above these leaves. If you do it this way, 2 new shoots grow up from the leaflets and the plant gets much bushier. If you cut below the last leaflets, it won't grow back.
When do you cut back Raspberry plants?
Do you have any experience with butterfly bushes? My mom cut hers back early this spring, almost to the ground (it was a new planting from last spring) and now one has one tiny branch of wimpy looking new growth but the other one doesn't appear to be sending out new growth at all. Does it sound like an error in cutting back or possibly something else killed it or is it just too early to expect much new growth in Northwest Ohio?
My spearmint plant's main stem has gotten really stiff and hardened. Is this because it needs pruning?
Can you please do a video on how to get squirrels to stop terrorizing my raised bed? they're pulling things up and digging and I can't keep planting new seeds
Bonide Repels-All
Put a netting. I guess
But did the Apple trees survive?
Hello great video and love the information. I was wondering though I have a lemon basil plant that is getting really tall, would it be beneficial for me to cut it back or let it keep growing... it is about 10 to 12 inches tall...? Thank you for all that you do. God bless stay safe and have a wonderful day
Loved this Thank you
Correction, raspberries only produce fruit on second year floricanes. The green, vegetative primocanes should NOT be pruned as they will only produce fruit their second year. Only ever prune floricanes on a raspberry plant, and only after it's done fruiting.
Loved this, thank you!
Is it weird that my curly Italian parsley regrew from last year and I’m in zone 4?
Thank you Luke for the video. How much land you have for planting?
I had no idea I was supposed to cut back my herbs. I just thought I could use whatever I needed and let the rest grow however. So, you said you were going to use the stuff you cut back. If it’s not good and tasteless what are you going to do with it? I actually just read about chives. What I read said I could either cut them back and dry them either before or after they flower and they would put on another whole flush of growth that I could also use. Is that correct?
This is great. Thank you.
How do you keep your basil alive over the winter? I didn't think it could survive outside in MI.
I thought you thinned out those strawberries? ;) Cut back?