How to Prune Garden Plants

Pruning garden plants can be very beneficial in increasing the flower, fruit and health of a plant.  Many times garden plants "come alive" once they have been properly pruned.  Timing and knowing your plants growth cycle is an essential part of the pruning process to ensure you acquire a healthy plant.

1. Trim your plants.  Pruning your garden plants can keep them alive and healthy.  Trimming away the brown leaves on your garden plant replenishes the health of the whole plant.  Brown leaves left on the garden plant drain away essential nutrients needed by the plant to keep it healthy.  Without pruning, there may be a lack of fullness of growth, dead leaves, no flowering and unfruitfulness to your garden plant.


2. Check the growth cycle.  The pruning process should be implemented during the proper growth cycle.  Every plant has a growth cycle in which when pruning is done correctly, will enhance the health of it.  Trimming away dead leaves keep vital nutrients needed by the remaining leaves so that the plant can grow full and fruitful for the remaining growth cycle.


3. Use the proper pruning instrument. Once you obtain information on the type of garden plant you have, decide when would be the best time for pruning.  You want to use a sharp cutting instrument to clip the stems, which has the dead leaves next to the closest branch.  By using a sharp instrument to clip the stems, keeps the cut crisp with less damage to the plant and it will heal properly.