How to properly prune roses for the winter: I explained to my neighbor grandmother, who did not know how to prune them at all

Do you want to correctly cut roses for the winter so that they not only live until spring, but also become more beautiful in spring? Then a fiery salute, comrade restless gardener! Today on the agenda are the rules of good manners in the autumn pruning of roses for “don’t know” and for those like my neighbor Gavrilovna, who do not know at all what she needs to do.

"Gavrilovna! Bring the secateurs here! "

My regular readers know: when I am too lazy to do something on my farm, I wander around to collect garden gossip and teach others wisdom. And today it turned out to be the most charming case, kindly provided by a neighbor of a respectable age - Yulia Gavrilovna.

Seeing that my grandmother was fumbling in the front garden, I hurried to her with obsessive questions. And Gavrilovna made contact: she complained that the roses that she writes out from the catalog from her pension are sometimes frostbitten, then they freeze completely.

I perked up and decided to help with advice that no one asked me for:

And then I realized that my grandmother was caught. I told her that:

• If you do not cut off young shoots that did not have time to ripen before the cold weather, they will freeze. They are not prepared for severe frosts. The pulp will begin to die off, and there it will definitely rot. And the rot will spread to healthy shoots.
• Although most roses can overwinter without shelter, not all varieties (especially young seedlings) are ready for Spartan conditions. To make the shelter easier to build, easier to cut.
• Roses are those plants that have to be cut off constantly for beauty and health. I do this in spring, summer and autumn.

In general, Gavrilovna: if you want to save all your retirement seedlings, cut them and cover them for the winter!

How to prune a rose: a guide for "don't know"

Take your time, comrade! While there is warmth, let the shoots ripen. Grab the pruner when there is a steady minus every night. All the same, the October frosts are unlikely to beat the roses.

Take a sharp pruner and proceed according to the scheme:

• Cut young shoots so that everything red, light green, thin and not lignified is not on the bush. With experience, you will begin to understand where is an already ripe shoot, and where is not.

• Without a shadow of a doubt, cut off all the flowers and buds. If your rose still has them.
• Cut out any diseased / dry / rotten / weakened at the root. Waste ballast that must be left behind the outgoing season.
• Shorten all remaining shoots: at least half, or better, leave only a third. Cover will be much more convenient!
• Cut only over the outer bud (facing outward, not inwardly), at a 45 ° C angle. Right now I'll stick a picture:

The rose is now ready for shelter! If you are an ideological opponent, then at least put a little peat on the base of the rose.

Do you like roses and was this article helpful? Press, comrade, "Thumbs up"! Sincerely yours, an involuntary favorite of the whole district, Fyodor Tyapkin-Sklyankin.