Pruning boxwood in the rain

Cutting back when it rains encourages fungal growth

Cutting in the rain, in particular, is immensely dangerous as it is the dreaded cause of the Boxwood shoot death, the fungus Cylindrocladium buxicola, as a result of moist or transferred to wet weather. Open interfaces and wounds make it easier for the pathogen to penetrate a previously healthy plant - and infect it within a very short time. But not only Cylindrocladium buxicola uses rainy weather for an infection, others too fungal pathogens then appear preferentially. After all, moisture makes mushrooms sprout. What is true for delicious forest mushrooms is also true for mold and other annoying fungicidal pathogens.

Cutting in the sun leads to sunburn

But you should also use them in dry, sunny and hot weather Secateurs rather leave it in the shed. During such phases he is little against dryness and heat-tolerant boxwood is stressed anyway, and it is also threatened by pruning

sunburn. Since you expose shaded parts of the plant and leaves when you cut, they will burn in the suddenly unfamiliar solar radiation: the box turns its color in places and leaves Brown, in addition, some shoots dry up.

When is the best time to prune the boxwood?

It is better, however, to cut the box on a dry and overcast day. Is that not possible, for example because the good weather phase has been going on for a long time and a cut back? is unavoidable because of pest infestation, you can take the action in the evening hours move. At this point in time, the solar radiation is no longer so intense, so that the shrub can cope better with the cut. You can also do something good for your book by filling it with fresh after the editing measures fertilizer pampering: ripe compost, Horn shavings(€ 32.93 at Amazon *) and Rock flour(€ 12.33 at Amazon *) are perfect for this purpose.