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- Do not cut boxwood in rain or sun
- Pruning in the rain promotes fungal attack
- Cutting in the sun will cause sunburn
- When should you best cut the boxwood?
- Tips
In case of rain, boxwood should not be cut
Do not cut boxwood in rain or sun
Easy to clean, cut compatible and suitable for all sorts of imaginative figures and forms: Boxwood is a true all-rounder in the garden. Even if a pruning does not bother the popular wood, it depends on the right time: If you cut during continuous rain or during a dry, fine-weather period, this can have unsightly consequences for your book.
Pruning in the rain promotes fungal attack
In particular, the cutting in the rain is immensely dangerous, but the dreaded cause of the boxwood dying, the fungus Cylindrocladium buxicola, transmitted in wet or 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 infection, other fungal pathogens then appear preferentially in appearance. Finally, moisture makes mushrooms sprout. What is good for wild mushrooms, is also true for mold and other annoying fungicidal pathogens.
Cutting in the sun will cause sunburn
But even in dry, sunny and hot weather you should rather leave the secateurs in the shed. During such phases, the boxwood, which is less susceptible to dryness and heat, is already stressed, and sunburns are also threatened by the pruning. As you uncover shaded plant parts and leaves during cutting, they burn up in the suddenly unfamiliar sunlight: the book turns brown in places and leaves, and some shoots also wither.
When should you best cut the boxwood?
It is better to cut the book on a dry and overcast day. If this is not possible, for example because the fine-weather phase lasts for a very long time and a pruning is inevitable, for example because of pest infestation, you can postpone the measure to the evening hours. At this time, the sun's radiation is not so intense, so that the bush can handle the cut better. Do something good for your book by pampering it with fresh fertilizer after cutting: mature compost, horn shavings and rock flour are perfect for this purpose.
Tips
In particular, during a hot and dry weather period you should carefully examine your Buchsanpflanzungen on an infestation with the boxwood spider mite.