How to Create a Flow Chart on Pruning Roses

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Pruning roses is one of the more challenging projects for beginning gardeners. To remember all the essential steps in this process, create an eye-catching flow chart. Use a graphics presentation program like Microsoft PowerPoint so you can insert striking designs. Write the separate tasks on the flow chart in the same order as the steps below.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Step1

Open a new document using either Portrait or Landscape orientation. Write "Flow Chart on How to Prune Roses" somewhere at the top.

Step2

Insert a chart legend. Decide on symbols to depict the following items: Begin Project, End Project, Task, Decision and Direction.

Step3

Start at the top with the decision about when to prune roses. Add choices about whether to wait until the last frost is gone or to start automatically at the beginning of spring.

Step4

Describe preparatory steps. Advise gardeners to use sharp pruning shears and protect themselves with long, thick gardening gloves. Insert a step advising them to begin pruning at the base of the plant.

Step5

Continue with instructions to estimate the size of canes on the roses. Add a step instructing gardeners to use sharp-bladed saws for thicker canes. Suggest they cut the cane at a 45-degree angle at the top.

Step6

Add one step suggesting gardeners remove dead wood to prune roses. Insert an additional step instructing them to discard disfigured shoots.

Step7

Specify at the end of the chart whether to remove or cut rubbing branches. Finish the chart with a final step instructing gardeners to fertilize new sprouts.