Is your rosemary bush getting out of hand and you need to prune it? In this
video I'm going to show you how simple it is to prune your rosemary bush
hi this is Jeremy Starke here from green thumb gardening here to give you some
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gonna go over a very simple way on how to prune your rosemary bush maybe you
know it's you have a couple different bushes and it's it just seems to became
big I mean you got to do something with it in my particular garden it's getting
a little bit big and it's a little unruly so I can't really plant too many
other vegetables besides it I'm gonna show you exactly what I do each year to
prune it down so that it grows each and every year before we get started though
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turning your rosemary bush is is very simple to do now if you if yours is
probably this is probably a medium-sized one these can get very large if you have
a small or medium sized one to finish shoes these Clippers very much like this
they're large enough that that it could get the job done but if they if they
have really woody if they're very one ones and I would use a a little bit
bigger shears for that so anytime that you do want any kind of boning on
anything I like to just kind of visually look at it and see where I want to take
off some of the growth of this now rosemary is a little
it is a very woody plant so if you notice that you'll see bottom the bottom
a part of the of the plant itself they're gonna be very very woody on here
and then as you kind of get up to the top you're gonna see more of a like what
you would see at the grocery store rosemary it's very flimsy at the top
it's not it's not very woody you want to you want to make sure that you're
leaving some of the growth in here so that it does continue to grow I
literally could just take this whole thing and just chop it down and it would
still grow it would still grow up but it won't it won't flourish as much as that
I'd be honestly this thing is really difficult to really do anything bad to
it this is this is very very bushy very long the spot that this is in
particularly as you can see it's like bending over because the Sun over here
turn under with the time doesn't get a lot of Sun so this one is kind of more
on this side so I think it was reaching for the Sun but this is this is right
over my vegetable garden so I'm actually going to move this one I'll show you
on how to transplant this well before i transplant i'm gonna give it a nice
little trim what i do is i don't want to cut off too much of it I do want to
shape it to a point where it doesn't look nice you know I don't want it to
just be like this chopped off kind of thing if you do that I would like I said
it'll still grow so what I'd like to do is I try to visualize where I'm gonna
chop everything down so I want this to be war I don't want it to be I want it
to be very small to be honest because the spot I'm gonna put it in a lil bit
swamp so I'm gonna cut this pretty heavy so I would say visualize it
and I would say that I want I want this cut off on this whole section right here
okay so the reason why I like to bunch up it just makes it a lot easier to work
at it especially if you got a pretty big one but if you're working with a smaller
one then you don't have to necessarily do that you can just cut it off as you
go along but I I'm a very simple garden I just
like to keep things very simple and I don't I don't like to
make it difficult of course I'm gonna save this sure my name isn't like some
of that
we're gonna make another pass with this but the reason why I bunched up begin is
just to see how how I wanted to look in sheep and then we're gonna have to go
back once I let this go it's gonna come out again so I'll show you
so as you can see it just kind of still flops out so the next the next part I
like to do when I'm when I am running the once I get the height of it then I'm
gonna go around the perimeter of the actual plant itself let make this less
kind of oh so I'm gonna look for some of the growth that just really seems to be
sticking out like this rake here and then what I'm gonna do I'm gonna show
you on the other side of it and get these off of this side
I cut it right down to the wood piece of it
on this side let's see so this is kind of sticking out give it to this guy
and you're just basically cutting down to the bottom half of the plant you
don't have to worry too much about cutting the wrong piece of it this it
will grow more offshoots of it and this is this fruiting it regularly is very
good to promote the growth because what happens is the itself is going to
redirect its energy instead of instead of growing up now it's gonna start
producing more shoes along the wood 20 parts and you'll see more sprouts kind
of coming up at the top as well so you'll see a little bit most of the wood
it's up you might see a few little nodules that will come up there and then
you'll see it sprout up it might come out from the sides but what I'll do is
the energy would get redirected to reproducing water
so doing that really does help out with making it grow a little bit better as
well so don't be afraid to cut as much as you need to off of it
I feel like a Daniel son with you put the karate kid here she's chopping up
some of these bushes there all right great once you get it to the
shape that you wanted at then you're pretty much done with it this this will
continue to grow in fact this will probably get a little bit more bushy I'm
gonna have to go at it again with it but that's the great thing about these is
that you really can't trim them back and you trim the back every year if you need
to keep it maintained you know the shape that you do on it well you can just let
them go wild and they do profile eventually if you just let it go
I'm a third a good spot healthy soil and all that though they'll actually grow
some flowers so you forget some would be pushy rosemary class
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