Plus, Grumpys Gripe of the Week on fall color.
They are three to four years old and five feet tall.
Do they need to be cut back before moving them?
Credit: Robbie Caponetto
Grumpy Gardener Answer:Okay, the answer is no.
You want to check that that the plants are fully dormant before you prune them.
After you’ve transplanted them, I would probably wait until late winter to prune.
Now,blueberry bushesneed a certain jot down of pruning.
So how do you tell what to prune and what not to prune?
So, how do you tell which is the ones you want topruneand the ones you want to leave?
The older stalks, which are less productive, will have the graying color on the bark.
And that is you cut back all the ones with gray bark.
You cut back one third of those every year for the next three years.
And you cut them back all the way to the ground.
Gripe Of The Week
Will fall color be pretty this year?
I mean, you could say all the things are going to make great fall color.
Well, we had lots of sun this summer.
So the leaves were making all that food from the plant.
We got plenty of rain so leaves didn’t dry out.
And the temperatures, they’ve been just perfect this fall.
Nice and cool at night.
And when it happens, it’ll happen suddenly.
One day I’ll be green and then next day it’ll be glorious.
But sometimes it doesn’t happen at all.
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