Top 5 Tips on How to Trim Hedges
In the past hedges were used for keeping farm animals in or out of the fields and for marking the ownership and boundaries. It is highly valued by people today for different reasons. Hedges help in reducing pollution, preventing soil loss, and they have the potential to reduce flooding and regulate water supply.
Hedges consist of evergreens which have dense leaves or deciduous bushes. Hedges are planted in rows close together. Hedges can be high or low depending upon the type of shrubs that you use. They provide useful borders, partition and living decorative to your landscape.
You need to maintain your hedges frequently for their clean and desired appearance with the right size. Normally, you need to trim your hedges two times a year. But you need to consider the variety of shrub that you have planted and its growth rate. In order to prevent their overgrowing, trim your hedges frequently. Here are some useful tips to trim your hedges to create a beautiful landscape.
How to Trim Hedges
1. Before you start trimming your hedges, you need to determine their habits. If you have dormant buds, and when you cut the end of a branch, it will sprout into new branches below the cut. But make sure not to trim the hedges too harshly. Therefore, prune your evergreens only into the current year’s new growth. If you have deciduous shrubs, it can put up with trimming into the old wood from the previous growing seasons.
2. Now start assembling all your tools. For small hedges, use manual hedge scissors or cutters, and for larger ones, use electric. Your cutters should have a trimming notch near the base of the blade. If it doesn’t have the pruning notch, you’ll need hand pruners. Also, you will need a tarp to collect all the trimmings.
3. You should always trim your hedges at the planting time. When you are planting a new hedge, trim the privet, and reduce the shrub height and the length of its branches by one-fourth to one-third. Privet is nothing but a flowering plant in the Ligustrum species. This type contains about 50 species erect, evergreen or deciduous shrubs. For dense evergreens and conifers that grow slowly, do not trim the tops until they attain their desirable height.
4. Now set an outline to make sure you trim your hedges neatly and evenly. To set an outline you can hammer stakes at each corner of the hedge. Take one stake and tie a string few inches off the ground. Take that string to the other stake at the end of the hedge and tie at the same level. Do the same for the upper end and the other side. For the upper section keep the string below few inches from the top.
5. Create a beautiful shape when you are trimming your hedges. Use the stakes as your trimming guide for the top, and strings for the sides. Cut off any stems and foliage sticking out past the string. All parts of the plant need enough sunlight for their growth. And as they start growing, trim the sides. Keep the bottom of your plant a little wider than the top, so that the upper limbs do not shade the lower ones. For places with snowy climates, give your hedges a sloped or rounded top. This way, your hedges will be able to get rid of the snow easily.
Always maintain a good shape and fullness of your hedges when pruning. Trim the deciduous hedges when they are dormant in the late winters and again in the summers. For new growth of evergreens, trim them in the late spring and mid to late summer. But do not cut into old wood.
Now after you finish pruning your hedges, fertilize it with compost to help them grow faster.
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