Do Not Prune Your Plants This Fall! (2019)

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!
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[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

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!?

[@PacificArcTigWelding]

good vid man, forwarding this to the wife.... she gets a bit clipper-happy in the fall sometimes, didnt know a lot of this!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks! Yeah, you really have to watch that first frost date where you live, plus the level of dormancy that a particular plant will hit during the winter cycle. Cheers!

[@HappyFarmsLa]

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!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

That's awesome Dani. Have you guys already had your first frost yet? We're close. Within a week for sure unless we get a warm front. Does your strawberries come through the hay by themselves in the spring, or do you have to "unbury" them? Cheers!

[@HappyFarmsLa]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I unbury them! We frost by mid nov...but it's mild...rarely hard freezes here but it did snow in early 2014 and early 2018 I think it was..

[@BlogTVisraelTracert]

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[@jefffavelle857]

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!

[@CoffeeCowsNCurls]

Good information once I get plants that need to be pruned.. thanks for the info.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks guys! What a small world...when I was finishing up my pruning video, I watched your mystery tree video as it popped up in my feed! Ha ha!

[@CoffeeCowsNCurls]

The Ripe Tomato Farms oh wow, that's kinda cool. It really is a small world 😀

[@valeriedigirolamo810]

I have a beautiful rosemary bush. I missed the pruning in august according to your video. I live in Stony Brook NY. Fall is here should I just keep watering it until the first frost and put straw around it. I won’t prune it now it’s to late

[@charlottenewberg1586]

What if I live in Wisconsin. don't I need to cover the hole plant?

[@Myjoycaro]

What’s the last date you suggest to prune rosemary and roses? I’m in zone 6.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

I have pruned right into winter, but my climate is quite mild. I would say about 2 weeks before frost and you'll be safe.

[@Myjoycaro]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thank you for your suggestion!

[@valeriexoxo]

I don’t understand what bud break and branching out mean. As far as hardening off, I thought that was the process of transplanting indoor seedlings outdoors by providing them sunlight gradually so they don’t die. What does hardening off mean in relation to winter for plants that are already outdoors? Finally, I’m just curious why your rosemary appears to have flowers? I’ve only had my plant for less than a year but I’ve had it all summer. Thank you 🤗

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Bud break and branching out is the sprouting of new shoots and branches off the older ones... It's how trees and perennials grow. Hardening off in this case refers to those very same new shoots that are lush, green, and NOT yet hardened off.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Rosemary often needs a vernalization period (winter) to stimulate the u following year's flower buds.

[@valeriexoxo]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms got it. thank you for responding!☀️

[@user-ip9js6em7u]

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