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Pruning Boston Ferns for Winter: Easy Steps to Keep Your Fern Happy!

jim by jim
2025-01-31
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Pruning Boston Ferns for Winter: Easy Steps to Keep Your Fern Happy!
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Okay, here is a blog post about pruning Boston ferns for winter, written in a conversational tone and based on personal experience, formatted with HTML tags as requested:

So, I’ve got these Boston ferns, right? They’re pretty awesome during the summer, all lush and green, hanging on my porch. But when it starts getting cold, I gotta do something with them or they’ll just, like, wither away and die. I used to just let them go, and then buy new ones in the spring, but that gets expensive! So I learned how to prune them for winter, and I’m gonna share how I do it.

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Pruning Boston Ferns for Winter: Easy Steps to Keep Your Fern Happy!

First thing I do is wait for that first light frost. Not a hard freeze, just a little kiss of frost. This kind of signals to the fern that it’s time to go dormant. Then, I get my pruning shears out – make sure they’re nice and clean, you don’t want to spread any plant diseases. I also grab a pair of gloves, because I don’t want to get pricked by any dead branches.

Getting down to business

I start by cutting off the hanging fronds, you know, the long green parts. I just snip them off near the base of the plant. After that I begin to remove any parts that have turned brown or yellow – those are just dead weight at this point.

  • Snip, snip, snip! All the way around. It might look a little drastic at first, like you’re giving your fern a really bad haircut. But trust me, it’s for the best.
  • Next, I take a look at the top of the soil. See those little runners? They’re kind of like feelers that the fern sends out to make new plants. I cut those off, too.
  • If any of them have little baby ferns starting, I carefully separate them and put them in their own little pots with some fresh soil. Who doesn’t love free plants, am I right?

Once I’m done with all that trimming, the fern looks pretty bare. It’s basically just a little clump of stems sticking out of the soil. But that’s okay! This is how it’s supposed to look. By getting rid of all that extra foliage, I’m helping the fern conserve energy and get ready for its winter nap.

Put the ferns to bed

Now, I bring the ferns inside. I usually put them in my garage. But if you’re tight on space, I guess you could store them in a cold, dark place. The main thing is that they need to be somewhere cool, but not freezing. I usually stop watering them at this point, too. Just a little sip maybe once a month, just to keep the soil from drying out completely.

And that’s pretty much it! I just leave them alone until spring. Then, when it starts to warm up again, I gradually introduce them to more light and start watering them more regularly. It’s like waking them up from a long sleep. And before you know it, they’re back to their full, glorious, green selves, ready for another summer on the porch. It’s really satisfying to see them come back to life, and it’s way cheaper than buying new ones every year!

jim

jim

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